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IBM TS4500 Tape Library

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Enable and disable LME

After LME has been configured, we need a method of temporarily stop new tapes from being encrypted, while still being able to read encrypted tapes.
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

TS4500 LDAP auth has a flaw

User authentication up against LDAP does not work in our environment. The reason for that is that we have brackets in our AD users Display Name. That issue was discovered in IBM case TS005232687It is not an option to delete the brackets in our AD ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

TS4500 multipath support for RoCE drives

TS4500 supports TS1160-E drives with RoCE enabled however multipath and path fail-over is not supported when using Ethernet devices. The library and lin_taped support multipath for FC, RoCE is supposed to allow leverage of Ethernet environment how...
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to use DNS name for encryption servers instead of IP

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) use IP for encryption server and we would like tape libraries to use DNS name so that it is transparent when IP changes on SKLM servers.
about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Firmware Check

System: TS4500Actor: Customer Commerzbank is asking for enhancements regarding library firmware check.Case was opened on behalf of client Commerzbank as a follow up for a critical situation.
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Web GUI refresh

Customer is clicking on a drive to monitor drive status. Due to automatic web GUI refresh, previously marked drive is moving up or down in drive list (depending on previously sort selection). But this is annoying from customer point of view: Previ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Is a defect

Dual LCC option for single frame libraries

In a single frame configuration there is no redundancy for the library control card. This is a single point of failure and can cause lengthy outages. Dual LCC option would eliminate this.
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

REST API access to TS4500 drive display codes

REST API for TS4500 drive list to include tape drive display codes for enterprise drives. This could be limited to only be shown when the specific /v1/drives/<sn> URL endpoint is used, rather than listing them for all drives (/v1/drives) - t...
about 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

Manufacturing Reset

Client would like the ability to put the library back in a Manufacturing Factory Reset state with a CLI command rather than needing IBM Service to clear the existing configuration.
about 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Add LTO lcd display to drives view

Add a column to drives view that shows the LCD status digit for LTO drives.
over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration