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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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    Library command to exclude/include category codes from write protect mode

    Currently, the only way to exclude or include a category code from write protect mode is to go to the cluster settings and use the GUI interface to alter each code one at a time. Using the GUI can take a significant amount of time due to page load...
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    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.
    12 months 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...
    almost 2 years 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...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Add Optional Timeout Value for AoS Enablement

    The TSSC home screen has a button that allows a user to Start or Stop AoS. This functionality could benefit from allowing an optional timeout value that would specify the maximum amount of time AoS can remain enabled. This is useful because allowi...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

    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 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    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 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to change Cluster ID without an outage

    As a future TS7700 feature, Michael Yuan at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to change the cluster ID without an outage. He would like to put a new node into the cluster and migrate everything to it. Currently, he has to do a manual...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under 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_
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 6 Future consideration

    Request the ability to read and write C07 style tapes behind the TS7770 including previously written C07 tapes.

    CTBC Bank currently use three TS7740 with GRID connection, we are proposing three TS7770 to replace them.Since CTBC did implement backup 3-2-1 policy. After daily backup jobs they did submit other backup jobs to physical copy those that need to be...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

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