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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events

Enable messages trapping for Account Creation/Modify/Deletion to be sent via Rsyslog so we can alert on these events It is my understanding after speaking with IBM that these messages are captured but the system is only designed to send Login / Lo...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Connect TS7700 to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants to be able to connect their TS7700 to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key.
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under 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 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

Support for spanning logical volumes on TS7770 with zTape Air-Gap Tape Exporter (FC5995)

A customer owns a solution for some of his backup jobs based on old native tape drives C07 / TS1140 whose End of Service already passed.  We’d like to replace it with a TS7770 with zTape Air-Gap Tape Exporter (FC5995) – which is a TS7770...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1

Disk Drives/Hardware Components - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

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

VTS / VIRTUAL VOLUMES SEARCH / possibility to NOT save searches

In virtual Volume Search interface we want to have possibility to clic on option "save search request?" if we want to save this new request search in the "previous Searches"
about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

VTS Physlib enhancement

For library maintenance operations, the TS7770T has to be put in Service Prep mode. Hence during all operations even planned ones, this cluster is unavailable.From ATS: unfortunately the Physlib is not designed for "planned outages". See the Host ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 grid is not available about any empty private volumes.

Even when one cluster in a TS7700 grid is not available including service, user can't mount any empty private volumes while other clusters are available as follows. IEF233A M 0F06,910000,,IEBGEN01,STEP1,KT4.TEST.DATA01 CBR4195I LACS retry possible...
about 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Is a defect

TS7700 Export Copy needs an independent format for code

TS7700 Export Copy needs an independent format for code.Customer has requested the TS7700 Export/Copy function/ software have backward compatible with previous code releases to help them during times of TS7700 code updates.
over 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration