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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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    FlashCopy -- limit to specific volser ranges or categories

    Currently, FlashCopy for DR saves a copy of EVERY tape that has changed. This is excessive, using a lot of cache unnecessarily when DR exercises are being done for a host/client that only uses a small subset of those tapes. And when you have a hos...
    25 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Ability to set a legal notice on login page to GUI and TSSC

    Ability to set a legal notice on login to GUI and TSSC pages. A requirement is that we have a legal notice on the login pages to the GUI/TSSC to reinforce around the computer misuse act. This is a risk requirement of the organization backed by reg...
    26 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    TS7700 library settings control to manage GRID Link Degraded Link Threshold, Attention Message Interval, SIM Generation Interval

    Provide an update to the z/OS Host library settings command for customer to be able to manage below settings, currently only IBM can view and manage the settings. 1. GRID Link Degraded Link Threshold 2. GRID Link Attention Message Interval 3. GRID...
    26 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    TS7700 host alert notification when a virtual tape volser stuck during z/OS zVM host failure

    A production tape remained stuck in a virtual tape drive, preventing production jobs from reading it. When left unnoticed for an extended period (hours or days), this issue impacted the HSM recycle process, resulting in no tapes being released fro...
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    REST API Certificate Renewals for Hydra

    In a large enterprise environment we have many certificates that need to be renewed. This additional functionality to the REST API will allow customers to automate the renewals of the management console certificates.
    2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    REST API Certificate Renewals for TSSC

    In an enterprise environment we need to automate the renewals of our certificates for the TS7700 estate.
    2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Authorize to set different IP for the NTP server on VTS7780

    Today it is impossible to configure different IP addresses on the clusters of a GRID of VTS7780. The VTS are generally installed on different and remote sites.An NTP server is available on each of the sites, but they have different IP addresses. I...
    2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Enhance the web MI to allow configuring the NTP server DNS, rather than a single native IP, inaccessible to the customer.

    We are required to limit risk by using internal trusted NTP server DNS names which load balance to a number of NTP servers. The current 5.4.2 level doesn't allow the customer to view the NTP address let alone modify it. It is also limited to a sin...
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Add ability to show data at rest is in encrypted and the encryption cipher via Rest API.

    We need this to be accessible via an API for audit requirements.
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    The VTS TS7700 should return other reason UNknown in TVILCAT when the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR.

    When CBRXLCS macro want to change a category, i receive UN on LIBRARY MANAGER CATEGORY CONSTANTS FOR TVILCAT from CBRTVI macro.The VTS TS7700 return UN because the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR and because the category DEVSUPxx is not e...
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

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