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IBM TS7700

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Increase logical tape drives per cluster to more than 496

TS7700s get more robust with each generation released allowing for more systems to share the high-bandwidth I/O and storage capacity but the logical tape drives have not increased, making it difficult to assign sufficient tape units to each sharin...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 2 Future consideration

Enhance RESTful API to include configuration information missing in the existing offering

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. SSL/TLS Session Timeout Endpoint Identification on LDAP connections SP800-131a Compliance HTTP/HTTPs for Web Dual Control (in R5.4) LDAP Primary Server URL LDAP Alternate Server...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 1 Planned for future release

Support larger tape ranges in the Selective Device Access Control tape range table

The SDAC tape range table supports 50 entries total. A range of A00000-A99999 covers 100K tape volumes. My client uses letters in the second position of the tape volser (A-Z). I have to enter a range such as AA0000-AA9999 (covers 10K tape volumes)...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 0 Under review

TS7700 Rsyslog add possibility to select log types that are sent using RSyslog

From the MI we can select the messages that we want to send to a Rsyslog server but not the log types. From the documentation: Items 0 through 15 are system defaults and items 16 through 18 are specific to TS7700. So we wish to be able to select o...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

Support CEPH as S3 target on "cloud storage tier"

IBM is pursuing CEPH as one of the S3 solutions ( additional to IBM COS) We are wondering if we could certify CEPH S3 interface as TS7700 offload target for TS7770C so we have the chance to use IBM COS or CEPH when deploying IBM S3 solutions onprem
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 0 Planned for future release

Pre-migration Queue Threshold Alert

Description: This would be useful to quickly identify issues with the VTS that can happen should it stop offloading to physical tape for any reason. Currently there is no alert, and the first symptom of trouble will come from long running jobs tha...
9 months ago in IBM TS7700 0 Planned for future release

Bring FICON ports offline

We have TS7700 that need to be isolated from production system. Having the possibility to vary FICON port down on VTS will add another security for data.
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 4 Future consideration

Ability to obtain environmental information

Many customers want to know in live environmental information such as total power usage (in watts) and inlet temperature (in degrees Celsius) on their TS7700 units. This information is available on DS8K storage arrays via GUI or CLI commands but i...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

Please upgrade the TS7700 rsyslog protocol to use TCP with TLS

The current TS7700 rsyslog communications protocol is TCP in the clear. By adding TLS encryption to TCP, the communications will be more secure.
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 0 Planned for future release

Emergency/recovery encryption key generation for External Disk Encryption with TS7700

On DS8K there is an option for creating an emergency/Recovery Key on a USB stick - a final resort in case the GKLM setup is fully damaged. Such 'final backdoor option' is not existing for TS7700. We absolutely need same functionality for the TS7700.
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

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