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IBM TS7700

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Event status at MI should be INACTIVE, when CE fixed the cash disk DDM failure.

At the last step of Cash Disk DDM failure procedure, IBM CE contact customer to check MI console for ACTIVE event and make them INACTIVE. Since IBM CE repaired the incident, event in MI should be INACTIVE. So, customers feel that they are being ma...
11 months ago in IBM TS7700 2 Delivered

copy export for z/VM

We mutualize our TS7700 with our clients. When a client requires to use it, we would like to export our data to give him a TS7700 we can clean up for his standalone restore. Then be able to restore our data when he has finished his exercice.
about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 2 Delivered

Number of flashcopy in VTS

Currently we have two production sites and a remote disaster recovery site. So we use one multi-cluster GRID configuration with 3 sites. We have defined a DR family with one TS7700 cluster on the disaster recovery site and we successfully use the ...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Delivered

Automated Backup of TS7700 database

Provide a way to allow customers to backup/restore the database and metadata for each VTS cluster within the grid. This needs to be a process that can be on demand or automated. This may be a duplicate of RFE 79372 but not sure if it included all ...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 2 Delivered

One command to replicate all existing logical volumes to the new TS7700 cluster after joining GRID

Currently when a new TS7700 cluster is integrated into the GRID configuration there is only one method to replication the existing volumes on this new cluster. So the new rules of the management policies must be retrieved for every logical volume ...
about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 2 Delivered

A command to display the all disks serial number in a TS7700 for security reason

For security and auditability reasons, we are asked to trace the theft of disks. Also, we would like to be able to list every day all the serial numbers of all the disks installed in each TS7700. It would be easier if this query could be done auto...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Delivered

Add ability to display remote mounts

Today there is no possibility for clients to identify mounts that are internally handled as remote mounts (access to a peer cluster's cache). This avoids the client to identify jobs that might hang due to a problem on the remote cluster and to swa...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Delivered

Remove usage of Distinguished ID and password in LDAP setup of TS7700 or have TS7700 read password of DN from API

During LDAP setup on TS7700, we currently use a Bind ID (Distinguished name) with a 180-day changing password in the "Server Authentication" panel for authentication with LDAP server and we maintain the password manually. Every 180 days we reset p...
about 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Delivered

Capacity on demand enhancement

Today's design of TS7770 Capacity on demand with FC 5262 and 5263 is not flexible enough as it is not aligned with the hardware capacity. E.g. in a six-drawer configuration the cache capacity is 472 TB but only 400 TB can be enabled by above FCs. ...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 5 Delivered

(MUFG)Request for improvement of the problems that it takes long time to insert the large number of new logical volumes in MI

We request a one-time upper limit relaxation, the current limit is up to only 10,000 at a time, and improvement for processing speed of tape logical volume insertion from MI. If it is difficult to improve the processing time, we first request to r...
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Delivered

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