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IBM DS8000

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Unable to leverage Transparent Cloud Tiering and DFSMSHSM in a zGlobal Mirror (XRC) installation.

We are a zGlobal Mirror (XRC) shop. We want to reduce storage costs for customers by utilizing Transparent Cloud Tiering and DFSMSHSM. When using TCT and DFSMSHSM, restoration to volumes in a Copy Services relationship is not supported on the DS88...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

XRSC: Use CA trusted certificates on IBM XRSC servers

Our Proxy servers expect publicly trusted certificates from the vendor support centre servers ( IBM backend servers) that XRSC is communicating with via proxy servers. However, the backend servers are not using publicly trusted certificates.
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

XRSC: SSL encryption/decryption capability

Support of proxy new functionality ( SSL encryption/decryption) for HTTPS traffic with port 10443: This is not supported with the current version of IBM XRSC software.
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 Create Certificate Request permit alternate HMC DNS entry

When using the Create Certificate Signing Request dialogue (for defining HMC addresses), it is only possible to define one HMC DNS host name. Client wants to be able to define both a common name and a subject alternative name for the DNS entry. Ap...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Increase number of logical volumes to be used on DS8K beyond 64K

Problem description: Extend the amount of logical volumes that can be hosted by one physical DS8K machine Current workaround: a.) spend a lot of mandays in order to consolidate multiple logical (!) volumes to less logical (!) volumes. b.) spend qu...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

DS8000 - Allow for volume names greater than 16 characters

The IBM DS8000 currently only allows for volumes names less than or equal to 16 characters in length. This is highly restrictive for systems with hosts that have a large number of volumes. Primarily because it is hard to provide a meaningful name ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

DS8k Metadata volume

On 8/3/2018 the HPFE in our DS8886 lost two drives at the same time, in the same rank. To recover we had to delete the entire storage pool because there is a volume of meta data for each storage pool, and that pool happened to land it on the faili...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

DS8K's should have authentication policy indicator on logon GUI screen

We have a large number of IBM DS8886's that are in various stages of connection to the systems. It can be very difficult to tell if we need to use our standard LDAP logon or our basic logon for any specific box. This can sometimes result in us bei...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Support Metro Mirror (or better all Copy Services) for LUNs up to 16 TiB

Currently DS8880 officially supports Copy Services (Flashcopy and PPRC) for volumes up to 2 TiB.IBM can support volumes up to 4TiB replicated by Copy Services submitting a SCORE RPQ.But today big LUN's in Open environments, particularly in virtual...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Make it possible to set Read permission for the secondary volume of the Metro Mirror in CKD format and enable permission of b

MUFG Bank, previously it was BTMU, is planning to improve fault tolerance in the zLinux DB environment, and for that reason Mirroring Contoroller which is the function of Fujitsu DB Symfoware Server plans to cope with server failure as well as sto...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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