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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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TS7700 MI - Inbound SSH (TCP Port 22) command line access to be allowed

Management Interface Inbound SSH (TCP Port 22) command line access to be allowed. This will provide functionality for IBM remote support personnel to directly access TS7700 while servicing without a need to connect via TSSC private network.
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 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
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

TS7700 - Surface NTP server usage via TS7700 Management Interface

Wells Fargo has requested that the TS7700 provide a method via the Management Interface that allows them to validate they the Ts7700 is utilizing a NTP server and what the IP address is for that NTP server. NTP is currently activated by the SSR vi...
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

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 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 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.
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Add Additional SYNC Copy Information to BVIR Historical Statistics

The existing BVIR historical statistics records do not contain enough information to determine the percentage of synchronous (SYNC) copies that were processed in a deferred (SYNC-deferred) manner in each fifteen (15) minute reporting interval. Onc...
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

TS7760 / Introduce 10GB Ethernet SW

A French customer, CNP Assurance use only 10 GbE SW in their network.The 3 TS7760 the just bought in 2019 don't use it and they need to install a 10 GbE LW just for the TS7760.They think it is a old fashioned tech and wants to abandon it.
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

Request to forcibly disconnect multiple TS7760s from the grid by command operation.

The customer is requested to be able to forcibly disconnect multiple TS7760s from the grid by command operation.
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Ability to set schedule on the TS7700 cache process

By the default, the TS7700 cache walk process runs every four hours daily, except on Sunday for a period of about 18 hours. This cache walk process has raised some concern from many customers that it may impact job run time.
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future 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 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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