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My votes: IBM TS7700

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Ability to change Cluster ID without an outage

As a future TS7700 feature, Michael Yuan at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to change the cluster ID without an outage. He would like to put a new node into the cluster and migrate everything to it. Currently, he has to do a manual...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Not under consideration

RPO Reporting Enhancement in Tape Gui

Today in the 7700 Tape GUI.. The current display of the COPY QUEUE contains a combined sum of ALL of the "deferred" and "Family" virtual volumes queued up --- that need to be copied. My customer "Humana" would very much like: 1. Ability to see the...
almost 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 should allow batch commands for PVOL movement

We have had numerous times where we needed to issue commands to a large number of pvols in our VTS's. We would like the ability to issue the commands to PVOLs through a batch interface so we don't have to spend large amounts of time in the GUI.
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 Logical WORM KPMG certification

Allow to configure retention period in data class, so volumes mounted in this class inherit this retention period. During the retention period, volumes cannot be scratched, deleted, ejected or overwritten. In addition, do not allow to decrease the...
about 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 physical WORM

Logical WORM protection in TS7700 protects virtual volumes from being modified or deleted from the host perspective. However, it does not provide a protection from physical damage of e.g. the cache. Once migrated to physical tape there is also no ...
over 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 2 Not under consideration

HYDRA encryption managed by the SMS constructs

Protecting data through encryption can be set on a per pool basis, which enables you to encrypt all or some of your data when it is written to the back-end tapes on TS7720, or for the whole disk cache. Customer would like to have encryption manage...
over 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 3 Not under consideration

TS7700 reports compared to ORACLE STK reports.

There are some kinds of reports from ORACLE STK solution, that customer frequently use to monitor VSM usage and management. They asked us to evaluate having similar reports to:1. Identify all logical tapes in use, and detail where we have replicat...
almost 10 years ago in IBM TS7700 4 Not under consideration

Set a Throughput occupancy threshold for TS7700

The client wants the TS7700 to have the option to parameterize a Threshold of Throughput, to monitor its occupancy, and when it exceeds the threshold send a message to the system.
over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 3 Not under consideration

BVIR History Data Retention to be Increased in IBM TS7700

IBM TS7700 Stores its history information in its database but only stores previous 90 days worth of data which can be extracted using BVIR from the host and then graphically displayed using VEHSTATS. This 90 days worth of data & VEHSTATS is us...
almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 Key Server Lost Communication Resiliency

CBR3750I Message from library XXXVL00: OP0440 The virtual tape 660library lost communications with the alternate Encryption Key Server.. When communication is lost to an ISKLM key server due to planned maintenance to the ISKLM server, OAM broadcas...
about 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Not under consideration