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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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    TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

    SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
    9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Secure Passwords for TS7700 MI/GUI with local user accounts: longer passwords and also special characters

    Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the requirement to use Passwords with a Length of 21 Characters for administrative Accounts. Also we have to use Special characters, in addition to numeric and alphanumeric characters for higher Pa...
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance the web MI to allow configuring the NTP server DNS, rather than a single native IP, inaccessible to the customer.

    We are required to limit risk by using internal trusted NTP server DNS names which load balance to a number of NTP servers. The current 5.4.2 level doesn't allow the customer to view the NTP address let alone modify it. It is also limited to a sin...
    about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Citibank: Add 2 more EKMs entries on the data at rest page on the MI so that we can add 2 IP’s and Ports for SKLM and 2 IP’s and Ports for GKLM (Different Key Servers for Tape and Disk)

    CITI is planning to leverage external encryption for their TS7700 systems as part of their long-term data security strategy. Currently, the Management Interface (MI) on TS7700 only allows for the configuration of a single set of IP addresses and p...
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    For TS7700 Clusters dedicated only for Copy Export operation, replace primary Pool through Grid-Pool

    Lower Costs, Higher Performance
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Incorporate CSR Generation Functionality into IBM TS7700 REST API

    The IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine, currently doesn't have the capability of generating CSR. The need for streamlined certificate management has become increasingly critical. Currently, generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for the TS77...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    IBM Tape Tools should be properly supported and developed

    The free IBM Tape Tools aren't sufficiently supported within IBM support structure. Some of the tools are to analyze or report on tape are generic and useful for any type tape hardware while others are specific to IBM TS7700, like GETHIST and CPYH...
    9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    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...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Enable TS7700 for Open Systems bei Adding the S3 Protocol

    The TS700 has everything enterprise customers need. It has backend tape, it is a grid, it has all replication capabilities and so on. It could be the perfect system for multipetabyte data from open systems, e.g. tiering from data to tape out of co...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

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