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IBM DS8000

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    Select background colour in GUI

    When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
    over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Externalise DS8000 Internal Traces

    System: DS8000Actor: CustomersDescription: It is about to enhance DS8000's backend monitoring by externalizing DS8000 internal traces/counters. The current practice that is to collect On-Demand Dump and to involve IBM SME for analysis, takes too m...
    over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Enhancement request for DS8K GUI/ESSNI to show end-to-end I/O latency for CKD volumes

    As mentioned in the PMH, the I/O response time (System Latency (ms)) provided by the DSGUI of the DS8870 and DS8880 doesn't show correct end-to-end latency in CKD volumes environment, but unfortunately it is current restriction. It is same on DS89...
    over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Erase on Scratch (Hardware)

    Last year we were directed to use Erase on Scratch(All) on our z/OS Systems. Testing was done on our Development Systems, but due to long elapsed times for Batch jobs, Erase on Scratch was turned off. We have a mix of DS8886's and DS8870 DASD Subs...
    over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    Request to confirm a microcode specification of PMIR for DS8880.

    On DS8870 R7.3, the following problem has occurred and we heard from PFE/Development that its cause is microcode specification. Therefore, on 2015/05 we have opened FITS MR0513155244 to request the design change, but we do not know its result beca...
    about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 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...
    over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Avoiding full volume background copy after restoring of one FlashCopy relation in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy env.

    The environment we request this enhancement is in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy with cascading FC support. In this environment, The customer will have two incremental FC relationships from one source A as Step1 bellow. Actually they will tak...
    over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 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 7 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 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    DS8000 Dynamic Volume Expansion and Copy Services.

    I want the ability to continue to use Dynamic Volume Expansion even while my DS8886 DASD Volumes are currently in a Copy Services (GC,FC,MM) session. You have effectively removed Dynamic Volume Expansion from ever being used again if involved in a...
    over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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