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IBM DS8000

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CIM agent on DS8900F for Spectrum Protect Snapshot

CIM Agent not available on DS8900. CIM is the only option to connect Spectrum protect snapshot to generate DB2 & SAP integrated Flashcopies https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6353361#req_stg ***note:NON ZOS RELATED BUT RFE WEBPAGE ONLY ALL...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

FlashDrive - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic RAID / Declustered RAID for Next DS8880

Distributed RAID or Declustered RAID or Dynamic RAID is especially popular with RAID-6 (what is now a default), and larger drive capacities.With larger drive capacities, the rebuild times in general grow a lot. Now this Distributed RAID not only d...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Embedded DSCLI should support file access

Ability to use the DSCLI for commands that are currently not supported. The latest one is our attempt to establish an SSL connection between the DS8950F and TS7700. We were unable to do it in the embedded DSCLI as the file certificates (root &...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Adding the NVMe over TCP/IP to the DS 8000 Connectivity and functionalities

The benefits are: 1-Enabling the DS8000 Storage to be integrated with Distributed Sysplex and Edge Computing based on 5G Networks. 2- Enabling the DS8000 to transfer data over unified 5G network with Edge Computing. 3-Enabling the Intelligent Mana...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

Problem with the limit of 256 sessions in one consistency group

My customer PSA manages the replications between his DS8886 with CSM.For production reasons, he defined one and only one a consistency group with a lot of sessions.In the documents it is mentioned that there is a limit to 256 sessions in one consi...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple MGM sessions per LSS

Please allow us to split LSS device ranges into multiple MGM sessions. Devices on a LSS could still be contiguous per session, but would like to split those between sessions.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

to extend the internal log retention period for error logs

Customer want to extend the internal log retention period for error logs in copy function. It will disappear in about an hour, but customer want us to keep it for at least one day.
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

DS8000 extensive FlashCopy in a MTMM / GDPS environment

Customer has Mainframe with GDPS and MTMM running in his environment. They want to use their LinuxOne system (Linux ion z hardware) for DB2 Datawarehouse and also want to integrate this environment into the GDPS construct. (LinuxOne with eCKD Volu...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Request for real capacity capacity in LSCKD command

Command showckdvol indicates the number of real extents and capacity that are used by a logical volume (thin provisionned) - fields Realextents & real capacity Customer need for monitoring and accounting purposes the same indicator for command...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration