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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

Increase logical tape drives per cluster to more than 496

TS7700s get more robust with each generation released allowing for more systems to share the high-bandwidth I/O and storage capacity but the logical tape drives have not increased, making it difficult to assign sufficient tape units to each sharin...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Automating the management of certificates on devices

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Link-Redundant Cloud connections via Network Isolation ports

Customers use dual ethernet switch infrastructure and want to be resilient from adapter/SFP/cable/switch failure or their maintenance activites
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

TS7700 - Aligned cryptographic support for TLS

Regardless of the interface I'm using on TS7700 or TSSC, the TLS support must be the same on all interfaces like HTTPS and RYSLOG. All of them must be kept in synch and up to date (which is nowadays TLS1.3). Currently there is a mixture of possibl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

TSS - Enable DNS over TLS

To implement concepts like zero-trust it must be possible to define in the TSS management console the Name Server as a secured one using DNSSEC and either DNS over HTTPS (DoH) or DNS over TLS (DoT).
about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Bring FICON ports offline

We have TS7700 that need to be isolated from production system. Having the possibility to vary FICON port down on VTS will add another security for data.
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Enhance the web MI to allow configuring the NTP server DNS, rather than a single native IP, inaccessible to the customer.

We are required to limit risk by using internal trusted NTP server DNS names which load balance to a number of NTP servers. The current 5.4.2 level doesn't allow the customer to view the NTP address let alone modify it. It is also limited to a sin...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Add ability to show data at rest is in encrypted and the encryption cipher via Rest API.

We need this to be accessible via an API for audit requirements.
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Implement the possibility to balance host I/O throttling on cache partition level

When TS7700 runs into host I/O throttling, this throttling is equal across all CPx partitions today. Since work load on different CPx may have higher or lower priority in the business/application context, it is required to have the possibility to ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

The VTS TS7700 should return other reason UNknown in TVILCAT when the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR.

When CBRXLCS macro want to change a category, i receive UN on LIBRARY MANAGER CATEGORY CONSTANTS FOR TVILCAT from CBRTVI macro.The VTS TS7700 return UN because the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR and because the category DEVSUPxx is not e...
7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

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