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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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    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 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Is a defect

    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 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    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 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    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 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future 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 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Improvment for FICON Adapter error corretion process.

    The customer requested improvement for FICON Adapter error correction process when the link status goes to unstable. Please refer to the case, TS010589231. The support team said, "If customer insists to change an unstable fscsi path to disable, Yo...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    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 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Enhancements to TS7700 VESHSTATS statistics

    Enhancements in next VEHSTATS reports:H21ADPSU Add information about how many FICON channels are working and the nominal transfer speed (4GB, 8GB, ...) on every cluster.H33GRID Add information about how many gridlinks are working and the nominal t...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    TS7760T with a problematic PVOL requires SSR intervention to go ROR. Request is to change this behavior to mitigate interve

    The problem to be discussed:a) Reclaim of a non-exported, not-properly-ejected, physically damaged tape should have been easier to do in a multi-cluster grid, in the scenario DTNA experienced.b) Reclaim of offsite tapes should not have been impact...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 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 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

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