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Tape - High End Virtualization

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Password expiration granularity for VTS MI users

At present the password expiration policy for MI users is setup at global level, this makes that all users have to have the same password expiration policiy. The customer needs to be able to specify a different password expiration policy for diffe...
almost 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 forced premigration

Today premigration of a virtual volume in a TS7700 can be delayed with a storage class setting to delay to some future point in time. However, there is no control currently to prepone premigration or to specify a timeout when premigration has to o...
almost 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Intergrated Message Console

Being able to see message that emulate the z/OS console. The features is available on the z/Enterprise HMCs, and the DS8K.
21 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

TS7700 Multiple NTP Server Addresses for Redundancy

This would be a robust configuration if the TS7700 MI can allow multiple entries for NTP time servers (just like the DS8950 MI), and/or allow LTM/GTM IP addresses and have one IP address that goes on a round robin of available NTP servers in the p...
22 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

Provide GUI option to list TS7700 virtual tape components with serial numbers

Hello, Recently we run into issue while tried MES upgrade an existing TS7700 virtual tape system. The IBM inventory services were not capable to list all components of the VTS, and for manually could add them to the configuration we would have to ...
26 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

Add the ability to use RSA for MFA on TS7700s / TSSC

Add the ability to use RSA for MFA on TS7700s / TSSC On the DS8K line we can use RSA for MFA we'd just like to have this ability for IBM tape so we can use the same method for both IBM storage solutions. As of now I believe the only way for MFA on...
2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Management Class in Library Request Command LVOL

There is no way to see the management class for a specific volume with the Library Request Command LVOL. You will get a lot of information, but there are no SMS constructs in the output. In the MI you will find it via Volume Details, but there is ...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

Please add ACME Client for TSSC

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On TSSC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

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...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Under review

TS7700 - Customer request 3rd or 4th level power redundancy within the frame - critical outage occurred because building power maintenance left the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. Without addtional redundancy, the box came down.

Critical outage occurred. Building power maintenance being performed turning off one power leg leaving the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. The box ultimately came down, having a 3rd of 4th PDU would've allowed this frame to stay pow...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration