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    Provide a possibility to Prioritize Work Load from customer side

    TS7700 must provide a possibility to prioritize workload (Pre-Migration, Host I/O, Copy processes) on customer's demand. TS7700 can have several limitations defined, which may lead to situation where front end (host I/O) work load is lower priorit...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Copy refresh of all volsers from source cluster to target cluster based on the selected criteria

    All customers using TS7700 doing end of lease replacement
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

    Enhancement to Tape volser copy refresh command also perform ownership transfer

    Reduce the risk of delay in manual ownership transfer from a different cluster after REMOVE where the copy exists.
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

    Emergency/recovery encryption key generation for External Disk Encryption with TS7700

    On DS8K there is an option for creating an emergency/Recovery Key on a USB stick - a final resort in case the GKLM setup is fully damaged. Such 'final backdoor option' is not existing for TS7700. We absolutely need same functionality for the TS7700.
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Make VTS performance numbers easily available

    VEC VTS performed automatic reboot due to lack of memory. System started to page, and there is no easy way to monitor paging or any other critical VTS performance numbers. To monitor paging (and other critical resources) those numbers need to easi...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Buffered log design Enhancement to take advantage of the 65 GB virtual volumes

    The majority of TS7700 customers are using in the Data Class setting for Virtual Volume Sizes the default 3490 Counters Handling of “Surface EOT”.There are various reasons why a customer does not want to switch to “Wrap Supported” e.g., they back-...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    TS7700 improve cloude connection on dedicated NIC

    Currently to implement Cloud connection from FS7700 to any cloud provider the same NIC used for grid replication is used. To improve performances it is helpful to have a dedicated connectivity with additional NIC within VED
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Request for improvement that the deferred copies should start soon after demount.

    Generally deferred copy is very useful to copy logical volumes to the remote clusters between long distance and to avoid longer job's elaps time than that sync or immediate copy consitency point brings on the grid configration.Today, deferred copi...
    about 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    TS7700 Web Management Interface for IBM BP

    Supply to IBM BP a TS7700 WEB MI as a remote tool or demo
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

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