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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 8, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Add additional fields to BVIR "Volume Status Information" report

Within the TS7700 when customer are moving to a new tape drive generation or to a new media generation they are often introducing a new pool and reclaim the existing data from the existing pool to the new pool. This is a common and IBM recommended way of migrating data to new cartridges.
However, the problem is, that the primary_pool setting in the lvol_constructs table is still pointing to the original primary_pool, even though the logical volume is migrated to a physical volume with a different pool set in the current_pool.
If we now accessing the migrated lvol a new copy will be triggered within the Grid because of the SCNF flag being set. This triggers workload in the Grid especially for the recycle process of OAM data. It would help a lot if there is a way with BVIR "Volume Status Information" to find affected logical volumes with a mispatch of primary_pool versus current_pool settings.

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Shreya Nair
    Sep 10, 2025

    To bring this closer to reality we would need many more votes and feel free to contact other TS7700 users to see if there would be any interest in supporting this request.

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