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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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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...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

Set Up virtual volumes Pools for different z/OS applications

We want to define different volume pools and address them via Storage Class, so that we can specify from the z/OS side which application (via Storage Class ACS routine) writes to which virtual volume pool (logical volume range). In this way, we ca...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Needs more information

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 ...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

VTS - Simplify RSYSLOG and TLS configuration

Currently to enable RSYSLOG with TLS is cumbersome and not the same as on other interfaces like TSSC. As documented RSyslog - IBM Documentation one has to add specific certificates with an alias to enable or disable TLS for the RSYSLOG connections...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

Implementation of PMTHLVL default equal to the total of Feature Codes defined on the Cluster

PMTHLVL is set to a default of 10’000 once a TS7770 cluster is started for the first time, no matter if all other settings were cloned from another (replaced) cluster. It is required to have the default value PMTHLVL set to the total of activated ...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

Implement alerting for PMT / CPYT

Values for PMT and/or CPYT must have the possibility to get alerted whenever a certain threshold is reached. Threshold can be Zero or - if possible - a fixed level in the SETTING or microcode. Alerting from the microcode allows faster reaction tha...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

add support for other KMIP server type

Today, only SKLM is supported to encrypt tapes. To simplify infrastructure, we would concentrate our KMIP requests to only one type of server. So our request is to have support for other servers.
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Planned for future release

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 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Planned for future release

TS7700 COPY ENTIRE POOL DATA TO NEW EMPTY POOL

We need to copy a pool to e new empty one by a simple fonction in TS7700 GUI
over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Control and TS7700 (VTS)

Today, customer is managing around thirty TS7700 units. He does not have the possibility to easily check the configuration on each one to be sure that the configuration corresponds to their need. Also, in case of problem, it's very time consuming ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

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