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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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TS7700 Web Management Interface for IBM BP

Supply to IBM BP a TS7700 WEB MI as a remote tool or demo
over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Add duplicate volser tolerance to copy export merge and cluster/grid merge process

I attached a präsentation about this requirement
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 copy/replication time reporting in the BVIR record

To day, it is required that the customer runs VEHAUDIT to get the copy time distribution report; the same report is attached. I have been approached by couple customers who would like to see the copy time statistics is written directly to the BVIR...
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Request for improvement that the deferred copies should start soon after demount.

Generally deferred copy is very useful to copy logical volumes to the remote clusters between long distance and to avoid longer job's elaps time than that sync or immediate copy consitency point brings on the grid configration.Today, deferred copi...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Automating the management of certificates on devices

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

TAPETOOLS should be part of z/OS

TAPETOOLS is currently shipped as a set of stand alone utilities. These need to be updated on a regular basis. The process of white washing Internet downloads and introducing them to the z/OS environment is getting very restrictive at some custome...
over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Password Policies for TS7700 MI/GUI for local user accounts like the TS4500 GUI/MI password policy setting

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the Requirement to use secure Passwords with certain Criteria of Length and Characters contained in the Password. To ensure that every TS7700 User Account meets these Requirements, we need a Passwo...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

A flexible way to prestage LV into VTS cache

Today, there is no native zOS utility available that recalls(prestages) all the needed LogicalVolumes in an effective and automated way back into the VTS cache.
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of TS7700. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Make VTS performance numbers easily available

VEC VTS performed automatic reboot due to lack of memory. System started to page, and there is no easy way to monitor paging or any other critical VTS performance numbers. To monitor paging (and other critical resources) those numbers need to easi...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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