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IBM TS7700

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Ability to set a warning message when the TS7700 premigration queue utilization reaches certain % of the licensed TB.

There is no ability to set an alert to warn the end user that the premigration capacity utilization is at certain percentage of the licensed premigration TB. Having this ability will allow the end user to take a more pro-active action to prevent t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

TS7700 I/O Priority

Problem Description:All systems (Test or Production) sharing the same TS7700 cluster or GRID get the same priority/throughput independent of its importance.Request:Implement the possibility to set a priority for each LPAR/Sysplex using the same TS...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Future consideration

Improve TS7700 Scratch Allocation Assistance functionality

We have 2 cluster Production Grid, 1 local and 1 remote. We preference the local cluster, because Ficon performance to remote forces us to. We have employed SAA to preference the local cluster.When the local cluster fails or is put into service pr...
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

MASTEROVERWRITE option that prevents append to an existing file or volume

There exists a need in some environments to have a LWORM or RMM option that specifies that once a dataset is initially written no further writes are allowed to the tape volume. Either an enhancement to LWORM with an option that limits Write Mount ...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

TS7700 Feature License panel should have option to display by s/n and not by node

Recently we noticed that a few features on the TS7700 were missing. The codes had been shipped but not installed. In trying to match up the feature codes that we did have installed we noticed that some of the feature codes are listed twice in the ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

G0015 message should have corresponding information in TS7700 MI

We recently had a very short 16 second total WAN outage between our two data centers. During this time at least one cluster in every VTS grid send out this message:CBR3750I MESSAGE FROM LIBRARY PVTD016: G0013 Library 00016 has experienced an unexp...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future 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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

TS7700 Performance Management, prioritize important tasks/jobs

• Problem Description:Each task/job using a virtual tape drive of a TS7700 cluster gets an equal fraction of the overall (licensed) bandwidth regardless of its importance or the current utilization (read or write, backup or recovery).Examples: – D...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Future consideration

Improved Monitoring of the Defined Premigration Threshold Limits of a CPx Partition on the TS7760

The IBM TS7700 hardware provides the possibility to start pre-migration in one or more CPx partitions when the Premigration threshold defined in the TS7760 is reached. This premigration may start at any point in time, whenever the threshold is rea...
about 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

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