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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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    Enhance physical Volume Pooling for virtual Volume Pools

    as an additional Point for the Idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TS77-I-209 it would be useful if we can decide which virtual volume Pool (Application Data) is written to which physical Volume. So we can get a chain from the z/OS Applciation Data ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    NTP updates needed

    Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
    8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

    Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    New implemented setting for customer NTP-Server without possibility changing timezone in Rel. 9.4.26

    With the new TSSC Release 9.4.26 there is now a possibility to configure customers NTP-Server for time synchronization on the console time UI.However, there is no chance to justify the correct timezone. This leads for example to different timezone...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Prevent from PMT / CPYT Throttling when PMTHLVL is exceeded but TS7700 is not at 100% Disk usage

    Measures must be taken to avoid host I/O throttling kicking in solely based on the PMTHLVL. It is understandable that TS7700 prioritized work load to free up cache in order to receive new data from host. But when there is no need for Pre-Migration...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Allow emergency change of PMTHLVL w/o intervention from IBM Technician

    Whenever the amount of data in the Premigration Queue becomes higher that the setting defined in PMTHLVL, a cluster may start to throttle Host I/O almost immediately. This may have a high impact on workload with high throughput. Since Feature Code...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Provide a possibility to Prioritize Work Load from customer side

    TS7700 must provide a possibility to prioritize workload (Pre-Migration, Host I/O, Copy processes) on customer's demand. TS7700 can have several limitations defined, which may lead to situation where front end (host I/O) work load is lower priorit...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under 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...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Buffered log design Enhancement to take advantage of the 65 GB virtual volumes

    The majority of TS7700 customers are using in the Data Class setting for Virtual Volume Sizes the default 3490 Counters Handling of “Surface EOT”.There are various reasons why a customer does not want to switch to “Wrap Supported” e.g., they back-...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    TS7700 Web Management Interface for IBM BP

    Supply to IBM BP a TS7700 WEB MI as a remote tool or demo
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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