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Tape - High End Virtualization

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Please upgrade the TS7700 rsyslog protocol to use TCP with TLS

The current TS7700 rsyslog communications protocol is TCP in the clear. By adding TLS encryption to TCP, the communications will be more secure.
about 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability to use RSA for MFA on TS7700s / TSSC

Add the ability to use RSA for MFA on TS7700s / TSSC On the DS8K line we can use RSA for MFA we'd just like to have this ability for IBM tape so we can use the same method for both IBM storage solutions. As of now I believe the only way for MFA on...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Management Class in Library Request Command LVOL

There is no way to see the management class for a specific volume with the Library Request Command LVOL. You will get a lot of information, but there are no SMS constructs in the output. In the MI you will find it via Volume Details, but there is ...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 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...
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

add support for other KMIP server type

Today, only SKLM is supported to encrypt tapes. To simplify infrastructure, we would concentrate our KMIP requests to only one type of server. So our request is to have support for other servers.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

Secure object information

We need the ability to store and secure object information (data in cloud) like: WORM, Expiration, Retention time etc…. As general, this function should be in TCT (DS8000) and in TS7700C.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tape

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tapeHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Closed ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

Support for AWS Private Link and VPC

Allows for us to follow our personal best practices with sending the data over a VPN to our AWS tenant. We have a URL that we would like to put in for the communication which will resolve to our private IP. It looks maybe like you used to be able ...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

Enhance RESTful API to include configuration information missing in the existing offering

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. SSL/TLS Session Timeout Endpoint Identification on LDAP connections SP800-131a Compliance HTTP/HTTPs for Web Dual Control (in R5.4) LDAP Primary Server URL LDAP Alternate Server...
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

IBM support ideas for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 for 2023 for TS7700 and TS4500

This would benefit Wells Fargo for the most updated security.
about 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

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