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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

Add TSSC patches to RESTful endpoints that provide TSSC information.

Today the TS7700 mrpd and tssc endpoints provide basic TSSC information including code version. However, it is also important to have a list of patches that have been applied on top of the base code level. For compliance purposes, it allows us to ...
9 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Submitted

Allow customer local break-glass accounts to remain active when Direct LDAP is enabled on TS7700

Today, when Direct LDAP is enabled on TS7700, customer access depends on LDAP authentication. If LDAP becomes unavailable because of directory outage, DNS issue, certificate issue, connectivity problem, or bind account issue, customer administrati...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Integration with Storage Insights

Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

logical volume retrieve in cache - tool

as IBM lab service unit, we would assist the customer to takeover some tasks the client has to execute by his own side when HW refresh is performed on new ts7700, or when a backup infrastructure change is in place. We need to be able to recall by ...
12 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

Enable Encrypted Email (SMTP over TLS) Relay Support on IBM TS7700

Add support for encrypted SMTP email relay (STARTTLS and/or SMTPS) for TS7700 system-generated email notifications, including alerts, events, and health status messages. Enterprise security policy requires all system and infrastructure email commu...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

A potential improvements for tape access from z Cyber Vault. Related to TS7700, RMM and TCDB.

This Idea is regarding z Cyber Vault and tape usage. An improvements for tape access from z Cyber Vault which is a hot topic in many installations these years. IBM have delivered a solution where we can use tape actively in a z Cyber Vault - safe ...
11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

Ability to add a second NTP server on TS7700

Have the ability to configure a second NTP server on TS7700 to improve resiliency, operational stability, and compliance while reducing infrastructure risk.
17 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

Provide new LI REQ knob to choose the old and the new Premig method

At the code level lower than R5.0 PGA1, it uses old Premig method. Number of simultaneous Premigs becomes the maximum when total data size in Premig queue is larger than PMPRIOR. At R5.0PGA1 or higher code level, it uses new Premig method. Number ...
11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

Allow MFA authentication for the accounts in the TS7770 MI and TSSC.

Allow MFA authentication for the accounts in the TS7770 MI and TSSC. We would require MFA enabled for the accounts in the TS7770 MI and TSSC for security.
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

REST API Certificate Renewals for Hydra

In a large enterprise environment we have many certificates that need to be renewed. This additional functionality to the REST API will allow customers to automate the renewals of the management console certificates.
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

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