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IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS

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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 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add time offset parameter to cloud server definition

In order to successfully connect with a cloud server the system and server times must be somewhat synchronized. CTC sets its time based on system time. Given the geo-dispersed nature of cloud storage this may not always be close enough to allow fo...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future 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 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

CTC inventory to cloud audit

CTC should support an audit function which can be used to identify and correct discrepancies that may result between the host based CTC inventory and the actual objects currently resident in a target cloud repository.
over 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support dynamic refresh for HVTVLTxx in CTC

Many of the HVT parmlib members can be dynamically refreshed like HVTTRLxx. Parmlib member HVTVLTxx cannot be dynamically refreshed. While a couple parameters within HVTVLT can be controlled dynamically the ability to refresh the entire library wo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable CTC to leverage TCT for network transfers

Where possible it would be good if CTC could leverage TCT as it network transfer mechanism which would effectively enable serverless data movement and reduce overall resource consumption.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support IAM option to either the DSORG or DSNAME_TYPE keywords

AAM supports certain functions of IAM datasets. It would be beneficial if selection criteria could be used to control intervention based on whether a dataset is of type IAM or not.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Can CUZ#EXPR be changed so it only produces reports and doesn't delete anything

CUZ#EXPR is run to delete expired backups from the repository and cloud service(s). I would be nice if there were an option available to allow it to produce the reports of what will be deleted without actually doing the deletes. The reports can th...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

CTCz Timestamp data on Status panel

On "Cloud Dataset Display" panel (Panel#CUZ$CDSN), Timestamp data is from UTC.Would you change this timestamp data as the local time?
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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