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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

Provide API-based access to IBM Storage systems that enables authentication and authorization of LDAP accounts without requiring the use of known passwords.

Provide API-based access to IBM Storage systems that enables authentication and authorization of LDAP accounts without requiring the use of known passwords, with all LDAP configuration parameters fully configurable via API. The preferred approach ...
8 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Tape DR capability restrictions during the site swap exercise

Enable VTS Flash for a specified set of VOLSERs based on a VTS category, an explicit VOLSER list, or a defined VOLSER range.
9 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Audit compliance for code intergrity

Customer Audit and compliance requirements are driving the need for independently verifiable evidence that firmware, Licensed Internal Code (LIC), and related system code have not been altered. While IBM firmware includes internal integrity valida...
21 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

TS7: DELEXP Count Max

The client expires more tape during the daily expiration process. The current max of 5000 can not keep up and they are having to add scratch tapes. We are looking for the ability to increase that number from 5000 to potentially 8000 to 10000 volumes.
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

allow tape device driver to support more than 1024 tape devices, specifically for ts7785

Customers want the ability to have more than 2 paths to virtual tape devices. Since TS7785 supports 512 drives or more, having more than 2 paths means the total number of tape devices that show up exceeds the current limit of 1024. Since clustered...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Would like Library Request parameters made available through RESTful API endpoints

Today, all TS7700 parameters that can be seen via the LI REQ,cluster,SETTING andLI REQ,cluster,SETTING2 commands cannot be retrieved or reported on via RESTful APIs. This information is of extreme importance when verifying device configurations fo...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Add NTP status and IP address(es) to RESTful endpoint.

This is needed for compliance reporting. Today there is no means to report the NTP status of our TS7700 devices when required by auditors, regulators, etc. By adding this information to one of the TS7700 RESTful endpoints, we could report this inf...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Add TSSC patches to RESTful endpoints that provide TSSC information.

Today the TS7700 mrpd and tssc endpoints provide basic TSSC information including code version. However, it is also important to have a list of patches that have been applied on top of the base code level. For compliance purposes, it allows us to ...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

TS7700: Audit tracking for Dual Control

When SSA was testing dual control there is no end-to-end audit tracking. The customer when to add a dataclass contrust, we see the request in the dual control request menu. Then the checker when an approved the request. it disappears from the requ...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Allow customer local break-glass accounts to remain active when Direct LDAP is enabled on TS7700

Today, when Direct LDAP is enabled on TS7700, customer access depends on LDAP authentication. If LDAP becomes unavailable because of directory outage, DNS issue, certificate issue, connectivity problem, or bind account issue, customer administrati...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

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