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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 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

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 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

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 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 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 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 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 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

TS7700 - Validate export media

Validation of data (logical volume) in the physical media.
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Inclusion of a REST API to interface with the TS7700 MI

Add a REST API to the TS7700 MI to gather operational and performance statistics.
about 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Access of TS7700 Data in Cloud by Open Systems

FedEx has requested the ability to access via open/distributed systems, data they will send from their on-prem TS7700s to the cloud
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

modify hostname for SYSLOG

Our syslog management have to get logs with a specific source name. We want to pu a personalized source name instead of the default of LinuxServer @ Adresse_SerialNumber_
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 6 Future consideration

Show GiB utilization on TS7700 MI Media Categories panel

A need to show GiB utilization on TS7700 MI Media Categories panel by category will be very helpful and enhance the TS7700 MI usability.
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Future consideration

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