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    Windows explorer Feature

    This demand aims at implementing a new feature providing a windows explorer like feature Please check the attached slides for more details
    over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

    Horizontal scaling of spcetrum environement in Openshift

    In order to optimize the general performance of the Discover spectrum environment implemented in Openshift, it seems important to us to consider that benefiting from the horizontal scalability capabilities in Openshift would be a must For example,...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect/TSM NDMP Support for Fujitsu ETERNUS AX/HX series

    We would like to see the ETERNUS AX/HX series added to the list of supported devices so that we can backup the system using Spectrum Protect/TSM and NDMP. https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/storage/all-flash-arrays/ax.htmlhttps://ww...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Move Data from old copy pool to new copy pool

    In order to handle tape media upgrades or tape recording format upgrades, customers need the ability to MOVE data from an old copy pool to a new copy pool
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Enable customer provided SSL certificate in OC

    Many compagnies don't allow self signed certificate anymore. Operation Center doesn't offer a solution to use CA signed certificate. It would be really usefull to allow customer to set it up.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Bulk adding tags to files via REST API without a policy

    We use a SQL select query to fetch files from the Spectrum Discover metaocean table and let a script work on these files. The script produces a JSON file with the fkey of every file and a JSON dictionary with tags that we want to add. Since we're ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

    Bring lin_tape source into the Linux kernel

    The lin_tape drivers are causing us trouble either when the OS kernel is being updated, or if the drivers need an update. Keeping a high patch level for security patches is very important on backup servers, since the backup servers generally have ...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Flow diagram between the pods in OpenShift

    In order to better understand Spectrum Discover a flow diagram would be very useful. For example: We open the web UI and click on connections:frontend pod -> connmgr -> db2whrest 2. We start a policy via the REST endpoint:policyengine pod -&...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

    Make connmgr pod persists its memory state to avoid stalled scans

    When the connmgr pod in OpenShift is restarted while a scan is running but not fully indexed into DB2 yet we're stuck in a loop. A newly started connmgr pod does not know about its previuos scans hence it can not commit a scan when asked by the co...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

    Add functionality to Python SDK for Spetctrum Discover

    When run in OpenShift, every pod that uses the SDK seems to require root privileges because the SDK mounts data connections under /nfs-scanner/. We have some Python scripts that use the SDK to work on files and apply tags to them in Spectrum Disco...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

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