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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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    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 ...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

    Add Logical Volume MiB used to TS7700 search engine

    The TS7700 Virtual Tape system knows about the space used for each logical volume with data, but the search logical volume panel does not have an option to report on volume usage, and its critical.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Copy refresh of all volsers from source cluster to target cluster based on the selected criteria

    All customers using TS7700 doing end of lease replacement
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

    Enhancement to Tape volser copy refresh command also perform ownership transfer

    Reduce the risk of delay in manual ownership transfer from a different cluster after REMOVE where the copy exists.
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

    TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range

    The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a state that will prevent the tape from being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range of volsers from the TMC.
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    A command to reapply management class on a volume or list of volumes

    Objective is to reduce migration time and correction time in case of error.
    10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    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.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Check and Validate data on Export media

    There is a government regulation for checking information on external physical tapes. External tape information can now only be checked on a single and clean cluster that is not in the grid and we can't do any data validation on exported media.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    LWORM immutability

    why is it useful? append is still a change, closer to an air gap solution who would benefit? Sheltered Harbor and applications seeking to create immutable copies on tape using LWORM how should it work? A global parm to allow or not allow a tape da...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Provide an IBM TS7700 interal fucntion to allow removing the secondary copies from old/inactive Copy Export Pool via internal DB2 cleanup.

    Our production TS7770 cluster was performing the daily copy export process prior the new TS7780 copy export cluster was installed. Now the production TS7770 needs to get rid of the copy export pool with 200 pvols in order to be able to re-use thos...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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