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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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IBM DS8000

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Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
5 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Free space on Flash Copy target devices after a Terminate command

A FC no-copy relation only copies data if the source has been changed (new data has been written). If the primary device has been fully updated all tracks have been copied to the target device and thoses devices are no more in a FC relationship. W...
14 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

DS8K - DSCLI as a docker image

It would be great if IBM can offer the DSCLI as a docker image for zCX. As s390x architecture is already supported, it would be great to have this available as a docker image to reduce the overhead to manually install it. As the standalone DSCLI i...
20 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Improve cancellation method of HSM TCT request when HyperSwap is attempted from HOST perspective

When HSM TCT requests get hung due to faulty network configuration, etc, ANTMAIN holds enqueue on PLANNED.HSWAP.plexname resource which causes planned hyperswap to fail unless ANTMAIN tasks are canceled. Request to improve cancellation method of P...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted