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IBM TS4500 Tape Library

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    IBM TS4500 Tape Library with FIPS 140-3 Support

    Dear IBM Team, We need your help & support to enable the FIPS 140-3 support with TS4500 + LTO9 + GLKM. Thanks & Regards
    27 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    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...
    4 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Support modern SSO protocols

    TS4500 only supports LDAP & Kerberos, this request is for integration with SSO using modern protocols such as SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 and/or OIDC.
    8 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Display write-protect status of a cartridge in the UI and API

    It would be a really useful feature to be able to see at a glance which tapes in the library currently have their write-protect switch turned on.
    10 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Automatically assign cartridges to volser range instead of keeping them only in VIO

    Currently (1.11 firmware level) only 255 cartridges can be inserted in the library without running checkin libvol/label libvol as they fill up the VIO slots of the library.As we often add a batch of a few thousands to increase capacity, this alway...
    11 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    The Tiny PC TSSC/IMC in the library and TS7700 should have a separate FRU for the HDD, instead of replacing the whole system.

    When this was initially considered many years ago, HDD failure was very uncommon, but now it's extremely common.
    25 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    Allow Rest Logins Audit msg to be deactivated

    If we check every 10 mins drive state, we get 144 login and 144 logout messages in the event logs of the library. The minimum would be the allow a API user creation who can only read for example and for whom one can deactivate then msg or similar....
    9 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

    Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include addi...
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Add setup options for secure, encrypted and authenticated E-Mail notification for Tape Library TS4500

    For security reasons we need the possibility to send authenticated and encrypted (TLS) alert emails with a predefined email address as sender. Unfortunately only authentification for emails is currently configurable.
    4 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Allow Lun masking for the control path

    With the TS4500 and other tape libraries, the Library Control path (SMC Device) is presented via Lun 1 over one or more drives, while access to the drive (RMT Device) itself is provided using Lun 0. In a larger tape environment, there is usually a...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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