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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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The VTS TS7700 should return other reason UNknown in TVILCAT when the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR.

When CBRXLCS macro want to change a category, i receive UN on LIBRARY MANAGER CATEGORY CONSTANTS FOR TVILCAT from CBRTVI macro.The VTS TS7700 return UN because the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR and because the category DEVSUPxx is not e...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

Provide a touch file to prevent the TS7700 to auto create a specific construct name which is not yet defined

When the host is coming down during a mount (LUM) with a specific construct name which does not exist in the TS7700 definitions yet and the maximum unique name limit (255) has not been reached, this new specific construct (e.g. Management Class) w...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Add a Quantity field to the Licensed Feature Codes table in the MI GUI for TS7700

When installing new feature code licenses on the TS7700 GUI, there is not a quantity count for some of the features such as FC 5263. We recently ordered new licensed capacity for TS7700 (QTY 3 of FC 5263 for a total of 300TB). We got one key code ...
7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

TS7700 GRID maximum logical tape volume increase

Please increase the maximum logical tape volume from current 4 million to 6 million as we our tape growth will soon exhaust the 4 million. Only if the limit has been increased, We will continue to be able to support the users to create more tape d...
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

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.
11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

youtube tv contact number customer services +1(833) 756-4415

YouTube TV is a popular streaming service that allows users to watch live TV and on-demand content. While the platform is known for its seamless user experience, there may be instances where you need to reach out to their customer support team for...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

Add GRID REQUEST Licenced volser Information to the LI REQ command

Add GRID REQUEST API output to the LI REQ,libname,GRID,REQUEST command so that we can fetch the licences volsers information from z/OS HOST itself.
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration