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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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Library command to exclude/include category codes from write protect mode

Currently, the only way to exclude or include a category code from write protect mode is to go to the cluster settings and use the GUI interface to alter each code one at a time. Using the GUI can take a significant amount of time due to page load...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of TS7700. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Password Policies for TS7700 MI/GUI for local user accounts like the TS4500 GUI/MI password policy setting

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the Requirement to use secure Passwords with certain Criteria of Length and Characters contained in the Password. To ensure that every TS7700 User Account meets these Requirements, we need a Passwo...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

[Copy] Open AOS for TS4500 and TS770 via TSSC REST API Call

(I have opened this case in the TS4500 product area because I cannot select the TSSC (TS3000) in the product area in the IDEAS portal) We want to open AOS (Assist on Site) access via a REST API call to automate and speed up internal processes. The...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

New implemented setting for customer NTP-Server without possibility changing timezone in Rel. 9.4.26

With the new TSSC Release 9.4.26 there is now a possibility to configure customers NTP-Server for time synchronization on the console time UI.However, there is no chance to justify the correct timezone. This leads for example to different timezone...
7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

TS7770 - Add a description field to the category define area allowing us to name our categories in a GRID.

It allows the engineer to quickly identify in the MI, who the categories belong to when sharing a GRID with multiple sysplex's. The description would be editable.
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Implement the possibility to balance host I/O throttling on cache partition level

When TS7700 runs into host I/O throttling, this throttling is equal across all CPx partitions today. Since work load on different CPx may have higher or lower priority in the business/application context, it is required to have the possibility to ...
11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Connection to CLOUD through of DNS ALIAS not IP FIXED

In the configuration of CLOUD in TS7770C, in the GUI, the URL what should be used , is a "IP FIXED" (for example, HTTPS://192.xxx.xxx.xx) . It's not possible use a "DNS" name. I think is more versatile the use of the DNS ALIAS vs IP FIXED. I think...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events

Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events It is my understanding after speaking with IBM that these messages are captured but the system is only designed to send Login / Lo...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

TSS - Enable DNS over TLS

To implement concepts like zero-trust it must be possible to define in the TSS management console the Name Server as a secured one using DNSSEC and either DNS over HTTPS (DoH) or DNS over TLS (DoT).
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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