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IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS

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Extend dataset masking enhancements to Clone rules

CTC recently enhanced dataset masking support for history dataset selection. These same enhancements should be extended to dataset clone rules.
26 days ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Under review

Reduce S3 calls when idle

When CTC is idle it continues to perform status requests to ensure a target cloud server is available. CTC should be modified to allow a known CTC server connection to go "Idle" until a new transfer request is received. At that time it can issue a...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Show the days before expiration or the expiration date in the Cloud Dataset Display

In the display of the cloud dataset (panel choice 3 of the ISPF interface) there are a lot of information but not the expiration date or the days before expiration of each listed dataset. To know this data you need to run the expiration utility ba...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

CUZCLOUD active task queue persistence across restart.

In case of a restart of the CUZCLOUD STC the active task queue is cleared. This doesn't permit to close safely the STC in case of planned outage of one of its components (z/OS, network, storage, HW) or unplanned events. At the restart of the STC w...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add command for changing retention period for all selected data in one step.

Our customer like to have a command for the change of the retention period of all selected data in one step . Customer will have – when in production – up to 3000 datasets which may be necessary to change the retntion period. Manually this would t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add the capability of Hydra support to CTC

There is a customer currently in the PoC process using IBM CTC and is very interested in the product but they are requiring Hydra Support.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable CTC to execute as a z/OS container

CTC provides software emulation for tape and enables the use of object storage to maintain a low cost inventory that is DR ready. Because all of this work is being done at the software layer they impact to system CPU resources can be notable and u...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve CTC WTO option when set to Y

When performing file upload operations CTC WTO messages can be set to Y or N, with N being the default. When set to N the only indication of activity are SMS dataset deallocation messages. When set to Y all history control cards are displayed indu...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable hardware support for Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm

One of the compression options supported by CTC leverages the IBM Rexx runtime to enable the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm which offers optimal CPU offload to zIIP for some data types. Beginning with z14 architecture Db2 has been able to levera...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance CTC Active Tasks display

When monitoring active tasks under CTC the display shows total Blocks/Bytes sent and based on elapsed time Blocks/Bytes Per Second. Watching a typical transfer its common to observe the total columns to cycle through periods of increment and pause...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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