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My ideas: IBM TS4500 Tape Library

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Add media verification result to dataCartridges RestAPI endpoint

All clients using media verification would benefit from the result being provided in the RestAPI output. Today the result can only be displayed on a per cartridge basis in the GUI. This is not a practible audit trail.
7 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

Add command ts4500cli.jar like 'saveMountHistory'

We need to keep track of tapes and their usage. Connecting to the tapelibrary every hour to download mount history is not a practical solution. This can be automated if the cli has a command like saveMountHistory where the last XXX mounts (or mayb...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists