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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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Want new option on command OTCNTL to transfer ownership from a specific volume

My customer wants to transfer the ownership of specific logical Volume using z/OS Host Command Line. The OTCNTL command doesn't provide an option to do it. TS7700 z/OS Host Command Line RequestOTCNTL command provides a method to transfer the owner...
about 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Delivered

TS7700 Allow customer to generate duplicate copies of Copy Export tape

There are two asks with this request:(1) Customer would like the capability to generate duplicate CopyExport tapes. In a recent DR test event, customer discovered one of the Copy Export tapes was missing. As a result, they had to reschedule the "e...
over 8 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Delivered

Compression algorith on TS7700

We have lost several deasl against EMC solutions just because of the pricing.While we are having compressions 2-3x, they use to obain 6-10x, so our solution is much more expensive than EMC one.We have explained TS7700 bebefits, automation, cloud-l...
over 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Delivered

PBMO1012-1546 TS7700 Messages are not following standards, making them difficult to trap via customer automation

Have the z/OS syslog message follow the common standard by either varying the suffix of the CBR3750 message or using multiple different message id's. At a minimum, include the impact code in the message text of CBR3750I so that filtering code for ...
over 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Delivered