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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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Ownership transfer of virtual volsers

I would like to see a more robust process of changing the ownership of volsers, before the unjoin process, or just balancing, if needed. Thanks.
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 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
2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Provide an IBM TS7700 interal fucntion to allow removing the secondary copies from old/inactive Copy Export Pool via internal DB2 cleanup.

Our production TS7770 cluster was performing the daily copy export process prior the new TS7780 copy export cluster was installed. Now the production TS7770 needs to get rid of the copy export pool with 200 pvols in order to be able to re-use thos...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way with BVIR "Physical Volume Status Information" to display whether a PVOL has the RELABEL flag set or not

We quite often use the LI REQ, LVOL, RELABEL command since we are moving the COPY EXPORT VOLSER Range from Cluster 4 to our new Cluster 3. However, due to timing issues sometimes the affected PVOLs are going into readonly (internal/expternal label...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Add additional fields to BVIR "Volume Status Information" report

Within the TS7700 when customer are moving to a new tape drive generation or to a new media generation they are often introducing a new pool and reclaim the existing data from the existing pool to the new pool. This is a common and IBM recommended...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Provide a touch file to prevent the TS7700 to auto create a specific construct name which is not yet defined

When the host is coming down during a mount (LUM) with a specific construct name which does not exist in the TS7700 definitions yet and the maximum unique name limit (255) has not been reached, this new specific construct (e.g. Management Class) w...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

For TS7700 Clusters dedicated only for Copy Export operation, replace primary Pool through Grid-Pool

Lower Costs, Higher Performance
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Provide new LI REQ knob to choose the old and the new Premig method

At the code level lower than R5.0 PGA1, it uses old Premig method. Number of simultaneous Premigs becomes the maximum when total data size in Premig queue is larger than PMPRIOR. At R5.0PGA1 or higher code level, it uses new Premig method. Number ...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - simple deletion of all default certificates

TSSC shall offer the option to delete all default certificates with a single click and allow to delete all expired certificates with a single click as well.
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Add an 'absolute' logout option for the VTS Management interface

Due to more restrictive security requirements we're asking to have an addition logout option for the VTS Management Interface. In addition to the session timeout option add an absolute timeout option. Whether the session is idle or not have the op...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

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