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IBM DS8000

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If an SSID participating in a PPRC relationship needs to be changed, DSGUI/DSCLI should provide a warning when attempting a chlcu for an LCU participating in a PPRC relationship.

We encountered a hardware error starting a GM session where we had duplicate SSIDs between the source and target PPRC LSSs. To resolve this, we used the GUI to change the SSID on the target LSS. Although the change was successful it would have bee...
15 days ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Request for Product Qualification: Fortanix

Customer is needing to integrate their DS8's into their new Fortanix external key manager. They are requesting IBM's support to officially support the EKM on DS8. DS8000 storage system - 88.59.53.0 DS8900 storage system - 89.41.25.0 DS8A00 model A...
18 days ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

PPRC with LUN's greater than 4TB

The customer in CMVC 372631 (BANK_OF_PIRAEUS) wants to migrate data from DS8900 (75KND00) to DS8A00 (78NWC50); involving volumes with a size of more than 4 TB. Current code has a boundary to allow for replication of a volume above a size of 4TB.
19 days ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Show commands when running script with multiple CLI commands

I work with CLI more often than with GUI when provisioning and configuring DS8000. There is a possibility to run multiple CLI commands using a text file. It works well and it is super useful. It would be nice to see commands that have actually bee...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

S3 target on DS8

Consolidation of infrastructure (storage) on to a single platform
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Power Consumption and Energy Statistic Reports

As with most companies nowadays, we have a very large focus on our environmental impact. Keeping track of our power consumption and carbon output is very important and it's something I would like to see added to be available from a PE-Pack for DAS...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

DS8 IBM i Volumes Should Include Modern Sizes in Dropdown

When creating IBM i volumes, the default size dropdown includes all the way from 8 GiB to 262.9 GiB, however with all of our modern IBM i environment, the minimum size we use for iASP at least is 477 GiB, which means that we always just have to ch...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Recovery Volumes from same SGC Backup volume

The ability to have multiple R (Recovery) Volumes from the same B (Backup) volumes would support where one R volume is presented to infrastructure for forensic analysis and cleaning etc., and another R volume from the same B source presented to ot...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Add the source/target DS8K serial or WWN in the DSCLI lspprc command output

When issuing the lspprc command, the output shows you the type of pprc and the source/target lss, but not to which DS8K you are copying to/from. In a multitarget environnement with a lss being the source of multiple pprc, knowing the targeted DS8K...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Add /var/spool/clientmqueue to logrotate

HMC2 was unable to backup critical data or send emails due to writes to /var were failing with "[No space left on device]". The cause of this was because /var was completely out of inodes as a result of /var/spool/clientmqueue had accumulated over...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration