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TS7700 Feature License should be exportable

The TS7700 feature licenses panel does not allow exporting of the list. We had a discrepancy between what we had purchased and the codes that had been installed. It was difficult to match those up without an export action on the panel when there a...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

BVIR Audit volumes should ignore volume copies 'in flight'

We utilize the BVIR 'COPY AUDIT' function to identify volumes that are missing copies in some or all of the clusters in a grid. As an example of this use we run a COPY AUDIT with the EXCLUDE parameter to specify a cluster that is being removed fro...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Add Additional SYNC Copy Information to BVIR Historical Statistics

The existing BVIR historical statistics records do not contain enough information to determine the percentage of synchronous (SYNC) copies that were processed in a deferred (SYNC-deferred) manner in each fifteen (15) minute reporting interval. Onc...
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

TS7760T with a problematic PVOL requires SSR intervention to go ROR. Request is to change this behavior to mitigate interve

The problem to be discussed:a) Reclaim of a non-exported, not-properly-ejected, physically damaged tape should have been easier to do in a multi-cluster grid, in the scenario DTNA experienced.b) Reclaim of offsite tapes should not have been impact...
almost 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Inclusion of a REST API to interface with the TS7700 MI

Add a REST API to the TS7700 MI to gather operational and performance statistics.
about 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

modify hostname for SYSLOG

Our syslog management have to get logs with a specific source name. We want to pu a personalized source name instead of the default of LinuxServer @ Adresse_SerialNumber_
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 6 Future consideration

Access of TS7700 Data in Cloud by Open Systems

FedEx has requested the ability to access via open/distributed systems, data they will send from their on-prem TS7700s to the cloud
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Show GiB utilization on TS7700 MI Media Categories panel

A need to show GiB utilization on TS7700 MI Media Categories panel by category will be very helpful and enhance the TS7700 MI usability.
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Future consideration

GUI should indicate if TS7700 is in 'skip' mode

We had a long VTS outage during which time errors were not being reported due to the VTS being in 'skip' mode. We would like some visible notification of the VTS being in 'skip' mode or health status screen that would show all the current componen...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

TS7700 Feature License panel should list "enabled"

Add column to feature license panel. Features are listed as activated but does not indicate if enabled. The additional column could be "Status" - ENABLED/DISABLED or "Enabled" YES/NO. Another option would be to issue a CLI command listing all lice...
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration