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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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TS7700 Flash Copy - Allow customers to Write to Flashed LVOLs - more like DS8K Flash Copy

DR Test RPQ- North Carolina Farm Bureau (NCFB) recently implemented a 2-way Tapeless Grid, Local primary Site (Raleigh, NC) replicating to Remote DR Site (IBM BCRS in Sterling Forest, NY). Prior to implementing the Tape Grid, NCFB sent physical ta...
almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

VTS db2 reorg planning change

VTS db2 reorg is statically planned. Due to client activity changes, it comes a time where reorg is planned during high VTS activity and then does not end within the required amount of time. Reorg may not be effective until many weeks. As of today...
almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future 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...
over 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

In local Encryption Context , Customer have no wy to check encryption status. This lead into long run discussion with no ending when need to supply encryption evidence to SecurityAudit Team"

When only have FC5272 using local encryption mgr, for data at rest . VTS admin people cannot supply trustable evidences to Security Team about the encryption status. We raise a case TS015965829 , we were explain, the the VTS MI data encryption tab...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Functionality already exists

TS7700 Rsyslog add possibility to select log types that are sent using RSyslog

From the MI we can select the messages that we want to send to a Rsyslog server but not the log types. From the documentation: Items 0 through 15 are system defaults and items 16 through 18 are specific to TS7700. So we wish to be able to select o...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Provide a configurable session timeout for the TSSC web management interface.

Security standards are further restricting the timeout of sessions for admin interfaces. Reduces risk.
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Add machine serial number to TS7700 Grid/Cluster MI summary

TS7700 Grid/Cluster MI summary page has many useful information, including the VE hardware serial number, but it is missing the serial numbers of other components of the TS7700 cluster. Adding the serial numbers of the other components, which are ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

Ability to generate a report of all the Hydra system inventory.

Ability to generate a report of all the system inventory. -Frame serial number, hydra serial number, tssc serial number, cache controller and enclosures per frame with serial numbers, etc.
about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

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