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Connect TS7700 to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants to be able to connect their TS7700 to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key.
10 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 GUI needs information on G0013 message

Over a weekend we received G0013 messages from our VTS's indicating loss of network access between the clusters in the grid. When attempting to diagnose the issue we logged on but saw no evidence in the Events log that would indicate a network out...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Is a defect

BVIR maintenance integrated in zOS

BVIR delivers very good Reports, but is maintained outside of zOS. The Tapetools have to be downloaded, unpacked, installed, the already used JCL has to be checked for changes. The TS7700 is maintained with PTFs instead, as it is usual in zOS.
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 Feature License should be exportable

The TS7700 feature licenses panel does not allow exporting of the list. We had a discrepancy between what we had purchased and the codes that had been installed. It was difficult to match those up without an export action on the panel when there a...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

BVIR Audit volumes should ignore volume copies 'in flight'

We utilize the BVIR 'COPY AUDIT' function to identify volumes that are missing copies in some or all of the clusters in a grid. As an example of this use we run a COPY AUDIT with the EXCLUDE parameter to specify a cluster that is being removed fro...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

TS7700 - Surface NTP server usage via TS7700 Management Interface

Wells Fargo has requested that the TS7700 provide a method via the Management Interface that allows them to validate they the Ts7700 is utilizing a NTP server and what the IP address is for that NTP server. NTP is currently activated by the SSR vi...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Add Additional SYNC Copy Information to BVIR Historical Statistics

The existing BVIR historical statistics records do not contain enough information to determine the percentage of synchronous (SYNC) copies that were processed in a deferred (SYNC-deferred) manner in each fifteen (15) minute reporting interval. Onc...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Incompatible "username" setting between the TSSC "Call home settings" of TS7700 and the CSP tool

In the TSSC "Call home settings" of the TS7700 unit it is not possible to enter a space in the "username" setting from the panel "Location Settings" while it is required to be compatible with the waited informations in CSP.
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Create BVIR copy queue report

We have a VTS Grid leveraged across many z/OS mainframe clients and some of those clients have an SLA on tape replication to our DR site. We need to prove to these clients that at all times their tapes are being copied to the DR site in under 2 ho...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Provide historical n/w metrics in TS7700 historical view

We experienced recent performance issues in our VTS environment and were having problems isolating the issue. It turned out to be WAN saturation so our 'sync across the WAN' workload was the only ones being slowed down. However, we only came to th...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration