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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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    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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 Multiple NTP Server Addresses for Redundancy

    This would be a robust configuration if the TS7700 MI can allow multiple entries for NTP time servers (just like the DS8950 MI), and/or allow LTM/GTM IP addresses and have one IP address that goes on a round robin of available NTP servers in the p...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Please add ACME Client for TSSC

    Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On TSSC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    RPO Reporting Enhancement in Tape Gui

    Today in the 7700 Tape GUI.. The current display of the COPY QUEUE contains a combined sum of ALL of the "deferred" and "Family" virtual volumes queued up --- that need to be copied. My customer "Humana" would very much like: 1. Ability to see the...
    over 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    A command to reapply management class on a volume or list of volumes

    Objective is to reduce migration time and correction time in case of error.
    12 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Improvment for FICON Adapter error corretion process.

    The customer requested improvement for FICON Adapter error correction process when the link status goes to unstable. Please refer to the case, TS010589231. The support team said, "If customer insists to change an unstable fscsi path to disable, Yo...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to change Cluster ID without an outage

    As a future TS7700 feature, Michael Yuan at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to change the cluster ID without an outage. He would like to put a new node into the cluster and migrate everything to it. Currently, he has to do a manual...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Request the ability to read and write C07 style tapes behind the TS7770 including previously written C07 tapes.

    CTBC Bank currently use three TS7740 with GRID connection, we are proposing three TS7770 to replace them.Since CTBC did implement backup 3-2-1 policy. After daily backup jobs they did submit other backup jobs to physical copy those that need to be...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Allow clusters in TS7700 grid to have a local NTP source

    Allow Each VTS within a TS7700 cluster to source it's time independently to avoid call -homes when their are WAN issues.
    about 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 Logical WORM KPMG certification

    Allow to configure retention period in data class, so volumes mounted in this class inherit this retention period. During the retention period, volumes cannot be scratched, deleted, ejected or overwritten. In addition, do not allow to decrease the...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

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