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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 20, 2024

Get a cartridge lifetime report of entire library inventory via REST API

Current mount history report is limited to 100 entries. Options to retrieve required information is available:

REST API option /v1/dataCartridges/SYD197L9 contains cartridge lifetime, but customer needs to filter out required information.

Since TS7700 release R5.3, BVIR report contains PHYSICAL VOLUME STATUS with lifetime (TS7700 customer only).

Requirement: Get a cartridge lifetime report of entire library inventory (*.csv), similar as we have for BVIR. 
More user-friendly, cartridge order is a high capital investment

Option available to get cartridge report via REST API, similar as we have for “GET /v1/reports/library” like “GET /v1/reports/cartridges”.

Options available to specify before/after date or specific percentage range?

Idea priority High