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IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library

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    Provide new LI REQ knob to choose the old and the new Premig method

    At the code level lower than R5.0 PGA1, it uses old Premig method. Number of simultaneous Premigs becomes the maximum when total data size in Premig queue is larger than PMPRIOR. At R5.0PGA1 or higher code level, it uses new Premig method. Number ...
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 (TSSC) - simple deletion of all default certificates

    TSSC shall offer the option to delete all default certificates with a single click and allow to delete all expired certificates with a single click as well.
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Secure Passwords for TS7700 MI/GUI with local user accounts: longer passwords and also special characters

    Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the requirement to use Passwords with a Length of 21 Characters for administrative Accounts. Also we have to use Special characters, in addition to numeric and alphanumeric characters for higher Pa...
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    For TS7700 Clusters dedicated only for Copy Export operation, replace primary Pool through Grid-Pool

    Lower Costs, Higher Performance
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 - Setup of the timezone (to send RSyslog records with the same time as the receiving system)

    TS7700 and TSSC do support the setup of an RSyslog Client and externalize the log collection. However, it is not possible to define a local timezone on either TS7700 or TSSC. This results in a mixture of log entries in the receiving Syslog Server ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Ownership transfer of virtual volsers

    I would like to see a more robust process of changing the ownership of volsers, before the unjoin process, or just balancing, if needed. Thanks.
    2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Add duplicate volser tolerance to copy export merge and cluster/grid merge process

    I attached a präsentation about this requirement
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Provide a touch file to prevent the TS7700 to auto create a specific construct name which is not yet defined

    When the host is coming down during a mount (LUM) with a specific construct name which does not exist in the TS7700 definitions yet and the maximum unique name limit (255) has not been reached, this new specific construct (e.g. Management Class) w...
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under 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 ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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