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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

Provide batch management of TS7700 controls

We are a large shop with a large number of VTS clusters to manage (72 currently). Having this many clusters means a lot of additional work when logging on to that many GUI's to manage the various statuses and configuration settings. In order to mo...
over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Support for AWS Private Link and VPC

Allows for us to follow our personal best practices with sending the data over a VPN to our AWS tenant. We have a URL that we would like to put in for the communication which will resolve to our private IP. It looks maybe like you used to be able ...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

Ability to change the time zone of TS7700 / TSSC NTP server etc currently stuck with UTC

I had a case open with IBM as we have setup alerting for the TSSC and TS7700 devices which go to a logging and monitoring tool. We noticed that the time on the events that were coming from the devices were in UTC. After looking at changing the tim...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

Ability to set a warning message when the TS7700 premigration queue utilization reaches certain % of the licensed TB.

There is no ability to set an alert to warn the end user that the premigration capacity utilization is at certain percentage of the licensed premigration TB. Having this ability will allow the end user to take a more pro-active action to prevent t...
almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Functionality already exists

Fast replication of tape

During tape replication over a longer distance, RPO time can be quite long (>1 h). In a disaster recovery scenario, this is not acceptable. Potentially we could loose critical data.
over 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under 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.
about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

Improve TS7700 Scratch Allocation Assistance functionality

We have 2 cluster Production Grid, 1 local and 1 remote. We preference the local cluster, because Ficon performance to remote forces us to. We have employed SAA to preference the local cluster.When the local cluster fails or is put into service pr...
almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Possibility to define the NTP server address through the TS7700 MI by using administrator user (customer)

Currently the NTP server can be configured in the TS7700 cluster or GRID by the IBM SSR. The customer wants to be able to define the NTP server adress through the TS7700 Management Interface by using its administrator user.
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

Ownership transfer of virtual volsers

I would like to see a more robust process of changing the ownership of volsers, before the unjoin process, or just balancing, if needed. Thanks.
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

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