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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

Ownership transfer of virtual volsers

I would like to see a more robust process of changing the ownership of volsers, before the unjoin process, or just balancing, if needed. Thanks.
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

IBMTOOLs update VEHAUDIT report 4 digit year

I know IBM is working on updated IBMTOOLs libraries. I would like to see the dates expanded in the IBMTOOLs report VEHAUDIT so it has a 4 digit year. Thank you.
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Needs more information

Better multi-tenancy support User ID wise

Hello, It would be great if the TS7700 provide improved multi-tenancy support for user IDs. For example, the ability to partition Hydra (Web) MI access so that individual users or clients can only view and manage their own “area” within the cluste...
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Completely deactivate LI REQ support

Hello, In a multi-tenant environment, where each tenant individually manages their RACF configuration, it would be important to have the ability to completely deactivate LI REQ support via the Hydra (web) Management Interface (MI) or through a RES...
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Query virt. Volume Inventory (Sizes)

Hello, The TS7700 Virtual Tape System tracks the space used by each logical volume containing data. However, the Web GUI currently does not provide a way to query this information in bulk (e.g., through the Search Logical Volume panel: TS77-I-108)...
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

Please add error in event log when offsite reclaim (at copy export operation) is being stopped in case of a logical volume residing on an inaccessible physical primary volume

We are doing copy export operation for safeguarded tape on a copy export only dedicated cluster. We had two times the problem, that a physical primary volume was inaccessible, which contained logical volumes that were needed for offsite reclaim op...
9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

Copy refresh of all volsers from source cluster to target cluster based on the selected criteria

All customers using TS7700 doing end of lease replacement
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Functionality already exists

Enhancement to Tape volser copy refresh command also perform ownership transfer

Reduce the risk of delay in manual ownership transfer from a different cluster after REMOVE where the copy exists.
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Functionality already exists

Provide an IBM TS7700 interal fucntion to allow removing the secondary copies from old/inactive Copy Export Pool via internal DB2 cleanup.

Our production TS7770 cluster was performing the daily copy export process prior the new TS7780 copy export cluster was installed. Now the production TS7770 needs to get rid of the copy export pool with 200 pvols in order to be able to re-use thos...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

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