IBM System Storage Ideas Portal
This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).
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LTO Drives are self cleaning and only need a cleaning cart when requested by the drive. Allow your library to clean on demand. You will also save money on cleaning cartridges.
The current gigabyte limit for tape drive cleaning frequency is too restrictive and results in drives being cleaned too often and added cost. I agree that a Terabyte limit is needed for TSM to properly manage tape drive cleaning.