About This Document; What's New In This Guide - IBM System Storage DS3000 Programming Manual

About this document

This document is a programming guide that describes the command line interface and the script
commands for DS3000, DS4000
maintain a storage subsystem. This document describes all of the script commands, explains the purpose
of the commands, shows the complete syntax of the commands, and defines the parameters for the
commands. The command line interface code is automatically installed as part of the IBM DS Storage
Manager client installation.
For instructions to install the DS Storage Manager V10.77 or earlier, see the IBM System Storage DS Storage
Manager Version 10 Installation and Host Support Guide.
For instructions to install the DS Storage Manager V10.83 or later, see the IBM System Storage DS Storage
Manager Version 10.8 Installation and Host Support Guide.
This document does not cover hardware installation or integration. For information about these topics,
see the Installation and Support Guide that is appropriate for your storage subsystem. See Appendix E,
"Additional Documentation," on page E-1 for a list of these documents.
Check the DS3000, DS4000, or DS5000 readme files for the most up-to-date information regarding
hardware, software, or firmware products that might not be described in this document.

What's new in this guide

This guide contains information about enhancements to the IBM DS Storage Manager version 10.84.xx
with controller firmware version 7.84.xx.xx:
v Enhanced Global Mirroring premium feature: For details, see Chapter 7, "About Enhanced Global
Mirroring premium feature," on page 7-1.
v Enhanced Remote Mirroring premium feature: For details, see Chapter 8, "About Enhanced Remote
Mirroring premium feature," on page 8-1.
v New appendices added:
– Appendix A, "Examples of information returned by the show commands," on page A-1
– Appendix B, "Example script files," on page B-1
– Appendix C, "Global Copy mirror utility," on page C-1
– Appendix D, "Simplex-to-Duplex Conversion," on page D-1
v Commands introduced in this release:
– "Enhanced Global Mirroring commands" on page 3-323
v Commands updated in this release:
– Add drives to Performance Read Cache
– Change Performance Read Cache application type
– Create SSD cache
– Delete Performance Read Cache
– Enable or disable Performance Read Cache for a volume
– Establish Enhanced Global Mirrored Pair
– Remove drives from Performance Read Cache
– Remove incomplete Enhanced Global Mirrored Pair from an Enhanced Global Mirror Group
– Remove volume from Enhanced Global Mirror Group
– Rename Performance Read Cache
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