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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

Machine rack door intrusion notification and machine rack door intrusion prevention.

Customers would be able to add another layer of notification and/or security to all their IBM machines that have doors. I propose a door sensor and/or door lock feature code that would let customers know if somebody has opened the door of their ma...
21 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

Enable Encrypted Email (SMTP over TLS) Relay Support on IBM TS7700

Add support for encrypted SMTP email relay (STARTTLS and/or SMTPS) for TS7700 system-generated email notifications, including alerts, events, and health status messages. Enterprise security policy requires all system and infrastructure email commu...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

High‑Availability Enhancement for TS7700 Microcode Maintenance

Eliminating planned downtime would deliver a best‑in‑class user experience for TS7700 customers, comparable to the DS8000 series. Currently, downtime is required because the TS7700 architecture relies on a single controller, which must be taken of...
2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

[Copy] The Tiny PC TSSC/IMC in the library and TS7700 should have a separate FRU for the HDD, instead of replacing the whole system.

When this was initially considered many years ago, HDD failure was very uncommon, but now it's extremely common.
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

Link-Redundant Cloud connections via Network Isolation ports

Customers use dual ethernet switch infrastructure and want to be resilient from adapter/SFP/cable/switch failure or their maintenance activites
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under 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...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

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.
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 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
9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 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...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 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...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

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