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IBM TS4500 Tape Library

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TS4500 name tape drives

It would be nice to have the ability to label each drive in the TS4500 GUI with a name that could be shown/sorted in the "Drives" screen.
over 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 4 Not under consideration

TS4500 improve Remote Authentication (LDAP, RACF) support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor authentication is a major component of security policies in many companies. TS4500 supports remote authentication with MFA when used with Duo (authentication proxy). However, this client has already invested in an MFA infrastructure t...
7 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

RestAPI to be able to set priority verification for a tape volume for Media Verification.

Requestion the ability to set priority verification on a tape volume via the Rest API.
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

TS4500 multipath support for RoCE drives

TS4500 supports TS1160-E drives with RoCE enabled however multipath and path fail-over is not supported when using Ethernet devices. The library and lin_taped support multipath for FC, RoCE is supposed to allow leverage of Ethernet environment how...
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Manufacturing Reset

Client would like the ability to put the library back in a Manufacturing Factory Reset state with a CLI command rather than needing IBM Service to clear the existing configuration.
about 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

TS4500 access when LDAP enabled

TS4500 supports LDAP. It requires LDAP group with admin privileges to be created in Library as well as LDAP domain. After LDAP group creation and integrating access with LDAP the library is not accessible via local accounts. JPMC require both acce...
almost 7 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Add media verification result to dataCartridges RestAPI endpoint

All clients using media verification would benefit from the result being provided in the RestAPI output. Today the result can only be displayed on a per cartridge basis in the GUI. This is not a practible audit trail.
15 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Submitted

Add command ts4500cli.jar like 'saveMountHistory'

We need to keep track of tapes and their usage. Connecting to the tapelibrary every hour to download mount history is not a practical solution. This can be automated if the cli has a command like saveMountHistory where the last XXX mounts (or mayb...
8 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

Don't send alerts for tape drives cleaning in the library that it automatically has cleaned.

We got this alerts. "Job 521576/QSYS/QTAPARB Device NDCMLB02 needs to be cleaned. Cause . . . . . : The tape drive read/write heads have become dirty and need to be cleaned. Recovery . . . : Clean drive NDCMLB02 by following recommended cleaning...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Enforce Volser ranges explicitly when they are present.

In the TS4500 library software if volser ranges are configured, I would like the library software to explicitly enforce these volser range rules. If a tape is entered that does not fall within the volser range rules the tape is treated as a foreig...
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

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