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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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    Enhance "Categories" Panel to Differentiate Between Scratch Volumes and LWORM Retention Volumes in Pending Deletion

    Description : Currently, in the "Categories" panel of the TS7700 (R5.4 & R6.0) related MI interfaces, there is no distinction between volumes that are truly in Scratch status and those that are still under LWORM Retention and only become Scrat...
    9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1

    Library command to exclude/include category codes from write protect mode

    Currently, the only way to exclude or include a category code from write protect mode is to go to the cluster settings and use the GUI interface to alter each code one at a time. Using the GUI can take a significant amount of time due to page load...
    9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    NTP updates needed

    Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
    10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 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.
    10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

    SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
    10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    IBM Tape Tools should be properly supported and developed

    The free IBM Tape Tools aren't sufficiently supported within IBM support structure. Some of the tools are to analyze or report on tape are generic and useful for any type tape hardware while others are specific to IBM TS7700, like GETHIST and CPYH...
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    MFA support with IBM Verify

    Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of TS7700. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Password Policies for TS7700 MI/GUI for local user accounts like the TS4500 GUI/MI password policy setting

    Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the Requirement to use secure Passwords with certain Criteria of Length and Characters contained in the Password. To ensure that every TS7700 User Account meets these Requirements, we need a Passwo...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 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...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    [Copy] Open AOS for TS4500 and TS770 via TSSC REST API Call

    (I have opened this case in the TS4500 product area because I cannot select the TSSC (TS3000) in the product area in the IDEAS portal) We want to open AOS (Assist on Site) access via a REST API call to automate and speed up internal processes. The...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

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