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My ideas: Tape - High End Virtualization

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TS7700 reports compared to ORACLE STK reports.

There are some kinds of reports from ORACLE STK solution, that customer frequently use to monitor VSM usage and management. They asked us to evaluate having similar reports to:1. Identify all logical tapes in use, and detail where we have replicat...
about 10 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Not under consideration

Set a Throughput occupancy threshold for TS7700

The client wants the TS7700 to have the option to parameterize a Threshold of Throughput, to monitor its occupancy, and when it exceeds the threshold send a message to the system.
about 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

BVIR History Data Retention to be Increased in IBM TS7700

IBM TS7700 Stores its history information in its database but only stores previous 90 days worth of data which can be extracted using BVIR from the host and then graphically displayed using VEHSTATS. This 90 days worth of data & VEHSTATS is us...
over 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 Key Server Lost Communication Resiliency

CBR3750I Message from library XXXVL00: OP0440 The virtual tape 660library lost communications with the alternate Encryption Key Server.. When communication is lost to an ISKLM key server due to planned maintenance to the ISKLM server, OAM broadcas...
over 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Different method to reset an expired password for MI users

At present when a password expires in VTS MI the only way to reset it is asking the CE to open a PMH to reset the admin user so it can reset the password of the user affected.The customer would like that each user can reset their own password with...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Password expiration granularity for VTS MI users

At present the password expiration policy for MI users is setup at global level, this makes that all users have to have the same password expiration policiy. The customer needs to be able to specify a different password expiration policy for diffe...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 forced premigration

Today premigration of a virtual volume in a TS7700 can be delayed with a storage class setting to delay to some future point in time. However, there is no control currently to prepone premigration or to specify a timeout when premigration has to o...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

VTS Physlib enhancement

For library maintenance operations, the TS7770T has to be put in Service Prep mode. Hence during all operations even planned ones, this cluster is unavailable.From ATS: unfortunately the Physlib is not designed for "planned outages". See the Host ...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 grid is not available about any empty private volumes.

Even when one cluster in a TS7700 grid is not available including service, user can't mount any empty private volumes while other clusters are available as follows. IEF233A M 0F06,910000,,IEBGEN01,STEP1,KT4.TEST.DATA01 CBR4195I LACS retry possible...
almost 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Is a defect

TS7700 Export Copy needs an independent format for code

TS7700 Export Copy needs an independent format for code.Customer has requested the TS7700 Export/Copy function/ software have backward compatible with previous code releases to help them during times of TS7700 code updates.
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

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