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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM DS8000
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 23, 2021

DS8XXXX Improve How Fibre Channel Port Location is Displayed in GUI

Under a previous RFE it was requested to add in the physical location of an IO Port to the New DS8 GUI in the Fibre Channel Ports view:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=121398

In the old GUI when we went to configure IO Ports, we would have a column which would show the complete physical location of the IO port, eg R1-B1-C1-T0 and so on.

In the new GUI separate columns were added for Frame and IO Enclosure and Host Adapter, and in 89.x code the old GUI was removed completely so the user is only able to rely on the CLI or new GUI to find the information they were able to previously in the old GUI.

There are a couple areas for improvement for how the GUI displays Fibre Channel Ports.

1) Add in a column for Port number as well, eg port 0 for R1-B1-C1-T0

2) Ideally add in a column which displays the complete physical location we used to be able to access from the old GUI.

3) But the main problem is in the new GUI, the IO Enclosure number counts from 1 through 8, which does not actually match the installation guide, the CLI, or how the hardware is labeled.
The actual numbering for the hardware is Frame 1 has IO Bays 1 through 4, and then Frame 2 has its own set of IO Bays 1 through 4.
For example on the hardware it is labeled R1-XI1 through R1-XI4 and R2-XI1 through R2-XI4. In the CLI if we check lshba it shows location codes of 1B1 through 1B4 and 2B1 through 2B4. Then for inexplicable reasons in the GUI only it counts it from 1 through 8 instead, so I would recommend the GUI to match the numbering that is present everywhere else.

Idea priority Medium