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    Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

    Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Introduce a new command to create additional cache copies within a grid out of existing ones

    It is required to have the possibility to create new copies of virtual tapes out of existing (cache) copies in the same grid. As of today, it is not possible to create additional cached copies once the CCP is correct. TS7700 does not distinguish t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    Introduce a new value for the maximum allowed PMTHLVL in the SETTING or SETTING2 command response

    It is required to have the currently allowed maximum of PMTHLVL in the SETTING(2) Library Request command response, e.g. as PMTHMAX This way it is possible to have a check running to verify against the current setting of PMTHLVL. Rational: It is p...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    Implementation of PMTHLVL default equal to the total of Feature Codes defined on the Cluster

    PMTHLVL is set to a default of 10’000 once a TS7770 cluster is started for the first time, no matter if all other settings were cloned from another (replaced) cluster. It is required to have the default value PMTHLVL set to the total of activated ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Implement alerting for PMT / CPYT

    Values for PMT and/or CPYT must have the possibility to get alerted whenever a certain threshold is reached. Threshold can be Zero or - if possible - a fixed level in the SETTING or microcode. Alerting from the microcode allows faster reaction tha...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    TS7700 GRID maximum logical tape volume increase

    Please increase the maximum logical tape volume from current 4 million to 6 million as we our tape growth will soon exhaust the 4 million. Only if the limit has been increased, We will continue to be able to support the users to create more tape d...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Glacier like Object Storage teiring in Tape. With compatibility with S3 API/Policies

    A growing trend I ha e noticed in my domain is data ownership and residency. However, costs exponentially rise as data has grown due to a lack of understanding of what data is being stored (partially due o GDPR which protects against data being vi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

    TSM Audit library should not require setting the library "offline"

    TSM Library Manager often loses information about the location of a cartridge in the library.Most of all cases happen after a Drive-, or Robot-mechanics failure.TSM Librarymanager then demands an "Audit Library".To do that "audit", we need to stop...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

    Bring FICON ports offline

    We have TS7700 that need to be isolated from production system. Having the possibility to vary FICON port down on VTS will add another security for data.
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Future consideration

    Increase logical tape drives per cluster to more than 496

    TS7700s get more robust with each generation released allowing for more systems to share the high-bandwidth I/O and storage capacity but the logical tape drives have not increased, making it difficult to assign sufficient tape units to each sharin...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

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