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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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Set a Throughput occupancy threshold for TS7700

The client wants the TS7700 to have the option to parameterize a Threshold of Throughput, to monitor its occupancy, and when it exceeds the threshold send a message to the system.
over 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

BVIR History Data Retention to be Increased in IBM TS7700

IBM TS7700 Stores its history information in its database but only stores previous 90 days worth of data which can be extracted using BVIR from the host and then graphically displayed using VEHSTATS. This 90 days worth of data & VEHSTATS is us...
over 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 Key Server Lost Communication Resiliency

CBR3750I Message from library XXXVL00: OP0440 The virtual tape 660library lost communications with the alternate Encryption Key Server.. When communication is lost to an ISKLM key server due to planned maintenance to the ISKLM server, OAM broadcas...
almost 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Different method to reset an expired password for MI users

At present when a password expires in VTS MI the only way to reset it is asking the CE to open a PMH to reset the admin user so it can reset the password of the user affected.The customer would like that each user can reset their own password with...
over 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 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...
over 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under 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.
2 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
7 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions.Supplemental to idea TS77-I-166.
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

CBR3750I message issued during service prep mode, because of service prep mode

When a TS7700 cluster is put in service prep mode for maintenance (RCL, for example), it ignores that it is in service prep mode and continues to issue CBR3750I message as if it was not. Some of those CBR messages generate false positive ticket an...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration