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IBM TS7700

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Provide a configurable session timeout for the TSSC web management interface.

Security standards are further restricting the timeout of sessions for admin interfaces. Reduces risk.
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 0 Planned for future release

Improve handling instructions for VTS CBR3750I messages

The IBM TS7700 hardware produces a lot of information, warning and alert messages in the format of CBRxxxxx – similar to DFSMSrmm and DFSMSoam messages – which may require operator intervention by the client to mitigate or fix errors before escala...
about 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

Prioritising tape replication by catagory/dataclass

Currently data replication is performed on a fifo algorithm so as soon as a tape is available and there is a spare replication thread the tape will start to replicate. We have a situation where we have batch jobs that use a tape category for large...
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

LI REQ Commands to display Network Port Information

The current LI REQ,xxxxx,STATUS,RDP,FxPyz is a great command and useful for FICON port connectivity. Would this command be able to expand for all Network connections as well? For example on a DS8000 DCLI command I can view all IOPORTS, NETWORKPORT...
about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Planned for future release

Provide batch management of TS7700 controls

We are a large shop with a large number of VTS clusters to manage (72 currently). Having this many clusters means a lot of additional work when logging on to that many GUI's to manage the various statuses and configuration settings. In order to mo...
about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 1 Future consideration

TS7700 MI Backup Setting

Automation for backup setting in TS7700. Create a scheduler mechanism in TS7700 MI or CLI (LIB Command) for automate the backup setting. Industry: Banking, Insurance, Finance and Health..
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

TS7700 should have dual cec to eliminate single points of failure

TS7700 clusters have a single power series cec which requires outages to update microcode. Installing a second TS7700 shouldn't be the only option for higher availability of a TS7700. Enhance design to use dual cecs.
about 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

Ability to generate a report of all the Hydra system inventory.

Ability to generate a report of all the system inventory. -Frame serial number, hydra serial number, tssc serial number, cache controller and enclosures per frame with serial numbers, etc.
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 1 Future consideration

TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range of tapes

The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a TMC Delete state so that the volume will not being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range.
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 3 Planned for future release

Adaptive inhibit reclaim schedule

The inhibit reclaim schedule today is static. When workload is increasing or shifting over time, reclamation might occur, when physical tape drives would be better used for premigration tasks. An adaptive reclamation algorithm taking workload into...
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

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