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    Need to add the total number of nodes and enclosures column to the array tabular view

    Today its a common ask in a large environment how many total enclosures or nodes are in a cluster and the only option is to drill into each cluster. Under internal resources we actually have total nodes and enclosures displayed. But this can take ...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    From RESTAPI be able to query setting on tape library

    As a validation check we audit our estate daily looking for changes in configuration not following an agreed pattern. Can we please have a method via RESTAPI to query all the setting that can be set via the GUI Ideally I would like to get these fi...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Ability to execute Backup Schedules on-demand

    The ability to execute a schedule task in the Backup Schedules list manually. The current behavior is scheduled backup will only run at a scheduled time, we cannot right click and choose run now (similar to an adhoc backup).
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Adding a vSnap to 2 SPP appliances

    The current Spectrum Protect Plus topology allows only one management (Spectrum Protect Plus VM) appliance to connect vSnaps.We should be able to add a vSnap to 2 different Spectrum Protect Plus appliances.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Enhance zero touch agent injection by automatically making the changes to support SPP agent to the server

    Customer has requested making the zero touch agent injection process simpler. For this specific case, the pre-requisites to inject an agent on a Linux server is a lengthy process. They would like to see if this can be done automatically when deplo...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    OC Send reports monthly

    Today OC can create and send reports daily or weekly, we would like to create and send report monthly also. We have seen the need at several customers to send monthly reports.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

    Timeout for Replication

    We have seen a scenario where if we got a Network Issue between two IBM Storage Protect Servers and the replication failed on the Source machine the target machine doesn't timeout it session. When we get in that stage we can't cancel any sessions ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    IBM Backup, Recovery and Media Services (BRMS) for i and Tivoli Storage Manager for IBM i

    I've a client in Moçambique that would like to back an Exictos-Promosoft Financial Suite on an IBM iSeries box (aka AS400's) using TSM V7.1 or later. Could you let me know if this is possible and how the client can do this. The client also has oth...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    When using Protocol nodes, the export IPs should be the only one to allow mounting shares

    With the use of Protocol Nodes, the CES requires IPs for export shares. However, even having the IP specific for share, the internal IPs (NODE IPs), which are used for administration only, also allow the NFS Mounts. The request is to isolate the n...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Rentention Sets for SAP/ERP

    Spectrum Protect retention sets are utilized to achieve longer data retention without the need to make further interactions with the host. This capability is available for file and 'VE' data. We need this to be extended for other use cases, and in...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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