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Improve handling instructions for VTS CBR3750I messages

The IBM TS7700 hardware produces a lot of information, warning and alert messages in the format of CBRxxxxx – similar to DFSMSrmm and DFSMSoam messages – which may require operator intervention by the client to mitigate or fix errors before escala...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Dual authentication for TS7700 constructs

Many of my TS7700 customers are starting to tight up security to protect the environment from both internal and external attack. In the TS7700 grid environment, there is a risk that the TS7700 constructs, especially the MGMTCLAS constructs, can be...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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...
10 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Future consideration

TS7700 should have dual cec to eliminate single points of failure

TS7700 clusters have a single power series cec which requires outages to update microcode. Installing a second TS7700 shouldn't be the only option for higher availability of a TS7700. Enhance design to use dual cecs.
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Enforce stricter controls for config changes/limits on VTS TS7700 Hardware

The IBM TS7700 hardware allows changes in the configuration/limits which could lead to a complete lockdown on the front-end, e.g. when increasing the premigration queue far above the PMTHLVL. This status, in particular, cannot be changed nor the q...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Prioritising tape replication by catagory/dataclass

Currently data replication is performed on a fifo algorithm so as soon as a tape is available and there is a spare replication thread the tape will start to replicate. We have a situation where we have batch jobs that use a tape category for large...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

TS7700 I/O Priority

Problem Description:All systems (Test or Production) sharing the same TS7700 cluster or GRID get the same priority/throughput independent of its importance.Request:Implement the possibility to set a priority for each LPAR/Sysplex using the same TS...
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

TS7700 MI Backup Setting

Automation for backup setting in TS7700. Create a scheduler mechanism in TS7700 MI or CLI (LIB Command) for automate the backup setting. Industry: Banking, Insurance, Finance and Health..
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Provide batch management of TS7700 controls

We are a large shop with a large number of VTS clusters to manage (72 currently). Having this many clusters means a lot of additional work when logging on to that many GUI's to manage the various statuses and configuration settings. In order to mo...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Enhancements to MI TS7700 dual control function

When dual control is enabled, only user modification (for example password) is requested an approval. So it is currently possible to delete all users (admintrator, operator ...) without double control. For security reasons, would it be possible to...
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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