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IBM TS4300 Tape Library

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    Segregate user account management function into a dedicated account and have the option to remove user account management from general privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor.

    Providing a user management only account and restricting user management from other privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor. The aim it to segregate user account management role from that of general administrator role as part of se...
    about 11 hours ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Provide Official lin_tape Driver Support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS

    Current Behavior: Currently, the IBM Storage Protect (ISP) Server operates successfully and without issue on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and testing shows identical stability on the upcoming/current Ubuntu 26.04 LTS releases. However, official ISP support o...
    22 days ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    add a column to get the tapes usage count information, how many times the tapes have been loaded, written, how many more times can the cleaning cartridge be used?

    ability to view the important data in TS4300 interface thank you you for your help
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Improve LTO9 Optimization Process

    The (wizard) process to OPTIMIZE LTO 9 Media is a painful long process that does not allow the library or drives not involved in the optimization to be used. We would like to see an improvement not only in the time it takes to optimize the media (...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 10 Not under consideration

    Defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives

    The evolution request on the IBM TS4300 tape library is to have the possibility of defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives. This improvement would allow to have an active logical partition which enables cartrid...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    Ability to send both configuration logs and information log to a syslog server

    Customer is requesting the ability to send all types of event messages to the syslog server. Currently either configuration logs, or information logs, are able to be sent to the server but not both. The specific request is that the capabilities of...
    4 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

    We hope IBM will also create a system configuration guide for us.

    This time, I selected the TS4300 for convenience.My request applies to all storage hardware products. In Japan, computer equipment manufacturers create guides called "System Configuration Guides." These documents explain what is required to connec...
    4 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Under review

    Externalize Environment Sensor Data

    In reference to TS018533380...This is for a TS4300 (3555) Library....Since the tape library / drives can capture and log the environmental operating conditions (i,e - temp and humidity) ; I would like the tape library to post an event into the log...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    Improved TS4300 Library Security with MFA Support

    For security reasons, it would be interesting if access to the TS4300 web management interface was controlled by MFA support (Multi Factor Authentication).
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Ability to export TS4300 logs to multiple r-syslog servers.

    Company has a new policy around certification of logging procedures. All logs are required to be sent to an external syslog repo. This is a new internal control, and the customer has asked for the ability to export TS4300 logs to multiple r-syslog...
    6 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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