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Status Future consideration
Workspace Linear Tape-Open
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 2, 2018
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit TL43-I-25 From RESTAPI be able to query setting on tape library.

TS4300 additional RESTful API information Merged

Add more information to RESTful API information available at TS4300.
Currently only a basic stack of information is available. We would like to have more information like if a tape drive is in use or not and by whom.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    May 20, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM Tape Library TS4300
    Component - General
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM Tape Library TS4500
    Component - General
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    May 19, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM Tape Library TS4500
    Component - General
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tape Library
    Component - IBM TS4500
    Operating system - Linux
    Source - None