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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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Integration with Storage Insights

Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 12

Query virt. Volume Inventory (Sizes)

Hello, The TS7700 Virtual Tape System tracks the space used by each logical volume containing data. However, the Web GUI currently does not provide a way to query this information in bulk (e.g., through the Search Logical Volume panel: TS77-I-108)...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

REST API for TS7700

We would like to have an option to check the configuration of a TS7700 with an automated script. What pools, SMS constructs, how many volsers, etc. are configured.We have good experiences in REST API with DS8000 and would like to have a REST API i...
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

Better multi-tenancy support User ID wise

Hello, It would be great if the TS7700 provide improved multi-tenancy support for user IDs. For example, the ability to partition Hydra (Web) MI access so that individual users or clients can only view and manage their own “area” within the cluste...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

Completely deactivate LI REQ support

Hello, In a multi-tenant environment, where each tenant individually manages their RACF configuration, it would be important to have the ability to completely deactivate LI REQ support via the Hydra (web) Management Interface (MI) or through a RES...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

TS7770 - Copy of TCT objects written by DS8910 on a TS7770 bucket to physical tape

BrB - Banco de Brasilia, is requesting our support to have objects stored on TS77700 through DS8910 TCT function been moved physical tape.
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

TS77 should write SMF as DS8* systems do

Hi, as everybody else who uses TS7700, we also use BVIR (available within Tape Tools). BVIR makes it possible to get the reports about TS7700 performance, usage, virtual volumes, physical volumes, etc.. Unfortunately, right now we don’t really ...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

logical volume retrieve in cache - tool

as IBM lab service unit, we would assist the customer to takeover some tasks the client has to execute by his own side when HW refresh is performed on new ts7700, or when a backup infrastructure change is in place. We need to be able to recall by ...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

Enable TS7700 for Open Systems bei Adding the S3 Protocol

The TS700 has everything enterprise customers need. It has backend tape, it is a grid, it has all replication capabilities and so on. It could be the perfect system for multipetabyte data from open systems, e.g. tiering from data to tape out of co...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

Pre-migration Queue Threshold Alert

Description: This would be useful to quickly identify issues with the VTS that can happen should it stop offloading to physical tape for any reason. Currently there is no alert, and the first symptom of trouble will come from long running jobs tha...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release