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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

TS7700 library settings control to manage GRID Link Degraded Link Threshold, Attention Message Interval, SIM Generation Interval

Provide an update to the z/OS Host library settings command for customer to be able to manage below settings, currently only IBM can view and manage the settings. 1. GRID Link Degraded Link Threshold 2. GRID Link Attention Message Interval 3. GRID...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Authorize to set different IP for the NTP server on VTS7780

Today it is impossible to configure different IP addresses on the clusters of a GRID of VTS7780. The VTS are generally installed on different and remote sites.An NTP server is available on each of the sites, but they have different IP addresses. I...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - Simplify Certificate Management - accept .pfx or .p12 certificate format

As the TSSC does not support to generate a certificate on the machine itself and only create a sign request. I need to order (from a CA) a certificate that holds the private and public key in a .p12 or .pfx format. However, to upload I have to man...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - simple deletion of all default certificates

TSSC shall offer the option to delete all default certificates with a single click and allow to delete all expired certificates with a single click as well.
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - Certificates - allow selection of multiple entries

Certificate management shall switch from 'radio' button to 'check-box' to allow multiple entries to be deleted with a single click. Currently I have to select a single entry, click delete, select the next one, click delete and so on. If check boxe...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - Dual Control for operational activities

Add Dual Control function to any operational activities on the TS7700 TSSC to increase resilience and protect from insider attacks as already implemented on the TS7700 HMC
11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

TS7770 - Copy of TCT objects written by DS8910 on a TS7770 bucket to physical tape

BrB - Banco de Brasilia, is requesting our support to have objects stored on TS77700 through DS8910 TCT function been moved physical tape.
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release