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Enforce stricter controls for config changes/limits on VTS TS7700 Hardware

The IBM TS7700 hardware allows changes in the configuration/limits which could lead to a complete lockdown on the front-end, e.g. when increasing the premigration queue far above the PMTHLVL. This status, in particular, cannot be changed nor the q...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 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...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

TS7700 and VEHSTATS tool - ORDERALL member

Today, for each new version of VEHSTATS tool, the customer have to manually customize a new ORDERALL member which is time consuming (ORDERALL member is around 1200 lines today), fastidious, with a high risk of errors.The customer wish to have the ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

TS7700 - Customer request 3rd or 4th level power redundancy within the frame - critical outage occurred because building power maintenance left the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. Without addtional redundancy, the box came down.

Critical outage occurred. Building power maintenance being performed turning off one power leg leaving the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. The box ultimately came down, having a 3rd of 4th PDU would've allowed this frame to stay pow...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 I/O Priority

Problem Description:All systems (Test or Production) sharing the same TS7700 cluster or GRID get the same priority/throughput independent of its importance.Request:Implement the possibility to set a priority for each LPAR/Sysplex using the same TS...
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 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..
almost 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 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...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 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...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

IBM support ideas for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 for 2023 for TS7700 and TS4500

This would benefit Wells Fargo for the most updated security.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

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

The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a state that will prevent the tape from being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range of volsers from the TMC.
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

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