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My ideas: IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS

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Compatibility with Google Cloud

It would be really usefull to have dedicated option to define Google Cloud server and use Cloud Storage XML API to manipulate data in Google Cloud Storage buckets.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 3 Delivered

CTCz zEDC compression for VTE function

CTCz Virtual Tape Emulator(VTE) has compression function when storing the data, but it does not use zEDC. Would you add zEDC compression support?
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Delivered

Enhance masking options for dataset selection

When defining a dataset mask in the history dialog the only generic allowed is a trailing *. CTC should support *, ** and % where any dataset mask can be defined for history and clone processing.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enable fast upload of read only mount

CTC virtual tape emulation supports the automatic download of a volser if it is requested for a mount after it has been uploaded. After processing CTC will re-vault the volser to return it to the vault. CTC should be enhanced to determine if the m...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Delivered

CTC should provide zIIP usage statistics for xfer activity

During tape demount the VTE component provides an informational message which includes statistics showing effective compression ratio as well as CPU usage including the amount of zIIP offload along with zIIP eligible workload that could not be off...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Delivered

Enhance CTC AT-TLS configuration flexibility

In order to successfully negotiate a secure connection CTC requires that the requested trust certificates be defined within its private keyring. Often the certificates needed by CTC have long since been available in the trust store, but due to thi...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add DELete primary command in ISPF panel (CUZ$DNS - Cloud Dataset Display)

In the ISPF panel(CUZ$DNS - Cloud Dataset Display) a REStore primary command for all selected data already exist. It would be really helpful for the customer to have also a primary command for a delete of all selected data to be able to delete dat...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Delivered

CTCz MS Azure support

KUBOTA want to store their backup data into Cloud using Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS, instead of the local tape unit.But they are using Microsoft Azure as their standard Cloud Server and CTCz is not supportable for Azure right now.Please add this...
over 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Delivered

Enhance CTC History processing to reprocess updated file

When CTC History processing selects a file to be uploaded it creates the cloud version and updates the catalog entry to CLOUD. When a subsequent scan processes it detects that the cloud based copy exists and skips the dataset. When the cloud datas...
over 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2 Delivered