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    Requirements and design to deal with 10 billion of indexed files

    Spectrum Discover with Spectrum Protect Customer wants to build a spectrum discover environment which handles up to 12 billion indexed files we are testing Spectrum Discover with 02 Spectrum Protect servers as data sources. Only these two server r...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Have up to 10 data connections in circle graph

    The home screen of the Spectrum Discover web interface shows a circle graph with all data connections. This may be useful if you only have up to 10 data connections but it is confusing with more data connections. It may also cause problems when we...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI multiple DB instances

    The FCM GUI of newest TDP Version works only with default dsm.opt.The older GUI could be started with CLI Option: tdpsqlc /tsmoptfile="<path>\dsm.opt".This function is not available for flashcopymanager.exe!Please refer to my Supportcase 134...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Planned for future release

    .tsv file extension should not take precedence for filetype .tsv.gz

    We have encountered an issue with applications agents and scanning files of the type ".*.gz", for example "some_file.nii.gz" or "other_file.tsv.gz". The filetype registered after scanning a directory containing these types of files is often wrong....
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Make policy creation use case easier

    When creating a policy there are 3 very common stumbling blocks that force them to abandon the definition and start over from step 1. These problems are, roughly in order of occurrence: ***** A. User forgot to define tag for the policy. Currently,...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Oracle 18c support SP 4 DB's

    I have a client who is installing Oracle 18c now and have a need for backups They have used Spectrum Protect in the past and want to continue to do so
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

    Backup Solution for Oracle 19c

    We have to be able to backup Oracle 19c
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

    Limiting scan permissions for connection

    Currently when scanning a connection, Spectrum Discover will index everything. Having the ability to add a connection, but exclude certain paths in that connection based on a set of criteria would be very beneficial. A similar option to how we add...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Chargeback use case - more generally, Enable policies to create/define metadata using arithmetic expressions.

    In summary, customers want to be able to perform arithmetic expressions and, if possible, leverage db2wh functions when defining policy to assign value to a tag. For example, customer wants to assign chargeback amount to a tag, "cost" as follows:c...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Match field names in UI and REST API

    In working with the REST API and spectrum discovers UI side-by-side,we've come across a couple of differences between the two. Specifically, for policy creation the UI requires a "Policy type", while the API requires and "action_id".Additionally, ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

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