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IBM TS4500 Tape Library

Option to retain current tape assignments when removing/editing VOLSER ranges

Currently, if you have a VOLSER range defined, if you delete it, it will remove all assignments from LLs for tapes within that range. It would be useful to have a simple checkbox/API flag that allows you to skip the unassigning of tapes when a VOL...
17 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

IBM TS4500 Tape Library with FIPS 140-3 Support

Dear IBM Team, We need your help & support to enable the FIPS 140-3 support with TS4500 + LTO9 + GLKM. Thanks & Regards
4 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Support modern SSO protocols

TS4500 only supports LDAP & Kerberos, this request is for integration with SSO using modern protocols such as SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 and/or OIDC.
11 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Display write-protect status of a cartridge in the UI and API

It would be a really useful feature to be able to see at a glance which tapes in the library currently have their write-protect switch turned on.
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Provide support for SHA384 certificate signature algorithm

Today only SHA256 certifiate signature algorithm is supported. SHA256 is the standard industry choice whereby SHA384 is mostly required for high-security environments, financial/government, compliance requirements.
2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Under review

Automatically assign cartridges to volser range instead of keeping them only in VIO

Currently (1.11 firmware level) only 255 cartridges can be inserted in the library without running checkin libvol/label libvol as they fill up the VIO slots of the library.As we often add a batch of a few thousands to increase capacity, this alway...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include addi...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Not under consideration

Allow Rest Logins Audit msg to be deactivated

If we check every 10 mins drive state, we get 144 login and 144 logout messages in the event logs of the library. The minimum would be the allow a API user creation who can only read for example and for whom one can deactivate then msg or similar....
about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Allow Lun masking for the control path

With the TS4500 and other tape libraries, the Library Control path (SMC Device) is presented via Lun 1 over one or more drives, while access to the drive (RMT Device) itself is provided using Lun 0. In a larger tape environment, there is usually a...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Not under consideration

Add TSSC patch information to the systemConsole RESTful endpoint.

Today the TS4500 systemConsole endpoint provides basic TSSC information including the code version. However, it is also important to have a list of patches that have been applied on top of the base code level. For compliance purposes, it allows us...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

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