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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 12, 2023

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Feb 2, 2024

    Hello Jason, we delivered this via REST API. We probably will deliver this on the report/view at some point in the future, but it's available now. ibm.biz/insightsrestapi

  • Guest
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    Feb 2, 2024

    I am another user that would love to see this enhancement. We manually track this and use the Volume data report to feed it.
    While an overall # will be better for overall planning, we too look at it similar to the example that was attached. One method may be to allow users to TAG ranges, this would allow us to see all ranges that belong to a customer or special purpose as well as how many are available within that grouping.

    It would be nice to see the LSS use over time as well with a breakout on MOD size.

  • Guest
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    Aug 30, 2023

    I was able to raise the original idea up to a priority: medium.

  • Guest
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    Aug 30, 2023

    Could I please get the priority on this request raised up?

    I would like to have the capacity reporting capability to report on storage at the LSS level. This will allow for our Mainframe Storage reporting to be more automatic and managed as somewhat messaged in my original request.

    In addition and what will become more critical is our ability to split capacity reporting out at the LSS level per storage array as we will become more consolidated (shared) across the hardware and we will need to have a way to split out capacity for billing at the SYSPLEX (LSS/LCU) level.

    Please do us a favor and give this some real consideration.

  • Guest
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    Jun 28, 2023

    Thanks for this idea. We're looking at other DS8k enhancements over the next couple of releases, but we'll consider this in the future.