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Faster fiber channel interfaces for LTO drives

Recent generations of proprietary IBM tape formats (TS1160 and TS1170) support 16 Gbps, we would like to see LTO drives support this as well. 16 Gbps (or faster) Fiber Channel interfaces are necessary to get full performance from modern LTO drives...
11 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Planned for future release

Enable changing local account passwords via RESTAPI

We have a security standard that requires passwords to be rotated every X days or after use use. CyberArk manages the passwords for us. In order for CyberArk to be able to manage a password we need a CLI or RESTAPI that can be called to invoke a p...
almost 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Automatic ingest for new tapes

I want to load new tapes into I/O slots and have them automatically moved into available slots based on function (data tape or cleaning tape). Right now, at least one magazine must be fully removed to add new tapes.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 3 Future consideration

LTO9 drive relative humidity value

LTO9 drive reports snmpt-trap alerts if it's relative humidity value is out of range. This relative humidity value of LTO9 drive should be visible on TS4300 graphical user interface.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable. This would useful during production monitoring.
over 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Allow allocation of a cross-library dedicated cleaning slot without wasting 5unit slot

Allow allocation of a cross-library dedicated cleaning slot (shared by all libs/tapes) without wasting 5unit slot. Generically, and possibly, allow also for logical libraries to be partitioned using an atomic unit less than 5slot (i.e. single slots).
almost 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Future consideration

Allow specification of CN in LDAP authentication for TS4300 login

Currently when configuring LDAP authentication on TS4300 the user CN is fixed cn=xxxxx.Modern authentication servers use different common names than "CN" - like "UID", ... Please add ability to specify which User CN is being used for LDAP connecti...
over 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

I noticed that some requests have been made for this support, but I really would like to see some attention given to this issue, because the last driver update is over 3 years old. I need to move on because the end of support for Ubuntu 20.04 is a...
about 2 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

IBM TS4300 Tape Automation

Could you please assist us with an issue we're experiencing with our IBM TS4300? When my team needs to load or eject tapes, the process has become very time-consuming. Is it possible to automate this process? We would like to select multiple tapes...
about 2 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Syslog messages forwarded to a syslog server have to be encrypted by TLS protocol

in our data centers syslog messages have to be encrypted. we got an open risk because Tape Libraries send syslog messages unencrypted to the syslog server.
4 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

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