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Enhance physical Volume Pooling for virtual Volume Pools

as an additional Point for the Idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TS77-I-209 it would be useful if we can decide which virtual volume Pool (Application Data) is written to which physical Volume. So we can get a chain from the z/OS Applciation Data ...
13 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Needs more information

Set Up virtual volumes Pools for different z/OS applications

We want to define different volume pools and address them via Storage Class, so that we can specify from the z/OS side which application (via Storage Class ACS routine) writes to which virtual volume pool (logical volume range). In this way, we ca...
13 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Change process for dual control function

the dual control function raise the security for important functios in TS77xx. To use this function you need 2 groups(or persons) for 'Maker' and 2 groups(or persons) for 'Checker'. The result of this workflow(design) is, that you need 4 Groups to...
2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Needs more information

insert more than two media categories/types for logical volumes

Today there are only two media categories available for defining logical volumes in an IBM VTS - Media Type Cartidge System Tape and Enhanced Cartridge. But you can define the volumes as 400MB, 800MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 25GB in the library. Since w...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Intergrated Message Console

Being able to see message that emulate the z/OS console. The features is available on the z/Enterprise HMCs, and the DS8K.
4 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

Add GRID REQUEST Licenced volser Information to the LI REQ command

Add GRID REQUEST API output to the LI REQ,libname,GRID,REQUEST command so that we can fetch the licences volsers information from z/OS HOST itself.
9 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

TS7700 SSL cetficate for AWS

My client would like to use a certifcate for the SSL connection to AWS S3 buckets.
11 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Needs more information

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