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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM DS8000
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 22, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

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 quite some money and purchase additional DS8K box

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 29, 2018

    The IBM strategy for increasing the capacity scalability for z/OS is the use of larger logical volumes and the use of software tools such as zDMF and HSM to enable consolidation.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 21, 2018

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM DS8000
    Component - General
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Storage TCC - Private Requests
    Component - Other
    Operating system - Other
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council

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