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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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A command to display the all disks serial number in a TS7700 for security reason

For security and auditability reasons, we are asked to trace the theft of disks. Also, we would like to be able to list every day all the serial numbers of all the disks installed in each TS7700. It would be easier if this query could be done auto...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Delivered

Tape Drive Protection Feature to Prevent a Foreign Tape to be read

With the implementation of zCloud and IBM ATL being shared among several different customers. It is possible that a physical tape created by customer A be read in on customer B system by bypassing the tape management system (CA1, RMM, TLMS etc) on...
almost 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Delivered

VTS: Beacon Ficon link amber when not fully ready

Enhancement Request for « VTS MI - Ficon status view »Enhancement request is for having the « check box » put in amber color when the information from remote node are empty or basically adding a comment like « al...
about 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Delivered

Add ability to display remote mounts

Today there is no possibility for clients to identify mounts that are internally handled as remote mounts (access to a peer cluster's cache). This avoids the client to identify jobs that might hang due to a problem on the remote cluster and to swa...
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Delivered

Remove usage of Distinguished ID and password in LDAP setup of TS7700 or have TS7700 read password of DN from API

During LDAP setup on TS7700, we currently use a Bind ID (Distinguished name) with a 180-day changing password in the "Server Authentication" panel for authentication with LDAP server and we maintain the password manually. Every 180 days we reset p...
about 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Delivered

TS7700 ignore 'delayed premigration' on copy clusters

Today TS7700 can delay premigration of virtual volumes with specific storage class settings. One can setup e.g. cluster 0 to use a premig delay and on cluster 1 to not use a premig delay. However, when you want to operate in dual active cluster mo...
almost 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Delivered

Volume in FF20 category

This RFE is to request a new message that will be sent from TS7700 to z/OS.It intends to alert the host about a logical volume damaged as soon as the TS7700 microcode detects the situation and insert the logical volume in FF20 category. For exampl...
about 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Delivered

Copy export cannot be operated unless premig queue has not be initialized

System: z/OS V2.1Hw:TS7720T(3957-VEB)Micro Level: 8.33.3.14.0 Our customer has more than 900,000 lvols.When premig queue initialization, we can not use copy export function about 5 days.Our customer is using copy export for disaster recovery.Not w...
over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Delivered

copy export for z/VM

We mutualize our TS7700 with our clients. When a client requires to use it, we would like to export our data to give him a TS7700 we can clean up for his standalone restore. Then be able to restore our data when he has finished his exercice.
over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Delivered

Number of flashcopy in VTS

Currently we have two production sites and a remote disaster recovery site. So we use one multi-cluster GRID configuration with 3 sites. We have defined a DR family with one TS7700 cluster on the disaster recovery site and we successfully use the ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Delivered

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