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    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

    CTC support for pervasive encryption

    With pervasive encryption a client can have z/OS encrypt/compress the VTE disk pool managed by CTC. When selected for eVaulting the VTE disk volume dataset is read using standard I/O in order to be packaged for transmission. This process decrypts/...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    Enable concurrent use of replication and vaulting in CTC

    CTC support replication as a mechanism by which the local tape pool is replicated to a remote location for high availability. CTC also support eVaulting which moves a local tape to a remote location for business recovery. Once a tape has been repl...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Enable one-way location for text xfer to open platforms

    Object storage is an infrastructure which supports both open and mainframe environments. While certain datatypes are not compatible it is possible to share basic text files between the two environments. CTC should support the capability for writin...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Enable clear key support in CTC for lifecycle encryption

    CTC V2 introduced Lifecycle Encryption to provide clients with the ability provide persistent data encryption, manage their own encryption keys as well a offload encryption to their zIIP processors. While the encryption process does not require a ...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Switch between slot in SW00SR view don't work

    In Toolkit 4.6, in debug, the SW00SR view is not updated when switching from one slot (TPFDF database) to another. Example in attach file : when we click on the second slot (25000B00), the details (and also Core Blocks, ...) are note updated with ...
    over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Is a defect

    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

    Enable support for multi-thread download from cloud

    Currently CTC supports the THREADS parameter to enable multi-thread upload to improve overall throughput. This same value should also be used to enable multi-thread download of objects as well.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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