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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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'Audit report required for 'Days Without Access' function of physical volume pool

I would like to be able to obtain an audit report on reclamations made for the 'Days without Access' function.
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 Feature License panel should have option to display by s/n and not by node

Recently we noticed that a few features on the TS7700 were missing. The codes had been shipped but not installed. In trying to match up the feature codes that we did have installed we noticed that some of the feature codes are listed twice in the ...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Improved Monitoring of the Defined Premigration Threshold Limits of a CPx Partition on the TS7760

The IBM TS7700 hardware provides the possibility to start pre-migration in one or more CPx partitions when the Premigration threshold defined in the TS7760 is reached. This premigration may start at any point in time, whenever the threshold is rea...
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

BVIR maintenance integrated in zOS

BVIR delivers very good Reports, but is maintained outside of zOS. The Tapetools have to be downloaded, unpacked, installed, the already used JCL has to be checked for changes. The TS7700 is maintained with PTFs instead, as it is usual in zOS.
over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under 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 IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Provide historical n/w metrics in TS7700 historical view

We experienced recent performance issues in our VTS environment and were having problems isolating the issue. It turned out to be WAN saturation so our 'sync across the WAN' workload was the only ones being slowed down. However, we only came to th...
almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under 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...
over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 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.
over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Enhance physical Volume Pooling for virtual Volume Pools

as an additional Point for the Idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TS77-I-209 it would be useful if we can decide which virtual volume Pool (Application Data) is written to which physical Volume. So we can get a chain from the z/OS Applciation Data ...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Needs more information

Enable DS8K range and TS7700 range to interface with Cyberark (password vault)

Currently we (Barclays) use Cyberark as a password repository. We store all our system userids (Admin/Customer) in cyberark and they are meant to be system managed i.e cyberark will change the passwords for those userids without manual interventio...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

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