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    Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

    I noticed that some requests have been made for this support, but I really would like to see some attention given to this issue, because the last driver update is over 3 years old. I need to move on because the end of support for Ubuntu 20.04 is a...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Support for Ubuntu 22.04

    We have a customer who wishes to use Ubuntu Server version 22.04 with Storage Protect and FC attached TS4300 with LTO9 drives. Whilst the interop for SP suggests that this code level is supported, the SSIC for the TS4300 shows the latest support w...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Ability to export TS4300 logs to multiple r-syslog servers.

    Company has a new policy around certification of logging procedures. All logs are required to be sent to an external syslog repo. This is a new internal control, and the customer has asked for the ability to export TS4300 logs to multiple r-syslog...
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

    More and more applications are running on Ubuntu and we see a larger increase of request to add tape support for multiple applications such IBM Storage Protect, Storage Scale and other running on Ubuntu. But to combine does applications with a tap...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Improve LTO9 Optimization Process

    The (wizard) process to OPTIMIZE LTO 9 Media is a painful long process that does not allow the library or drives not involved in the optimization to be used. We would like to see an improvement not only in the time it takes to optimize the media (...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 10 Not under consideration

    Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

    Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
    3 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    Defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives

    The evolution request on the IBM TS4300 tape library is to have the possibility of defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives. This improvement would allow to have an active logical partition which enables cartrid...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    Externalize Environment Sensor Data

    In reference to TS018533380...This is for a TS4300 (3555) Library....Since the tape library / drives can capture and log the environmental operating conditions (i,e - temp and humidity) ; I would like the tape library to post an event into the log...
    10 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    Add option in Spectrum Protect OC to send reports in PDF format

    One of my customers requested to have the option to send Spectrum Protect reports in PDF format via email. This is the same functionality that they have today, since they are using Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Common...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

    TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

    TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

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