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Storing unknown tags returned by applications for review and addition after a policy is completed.

Currently, any tags you wish to extract using a deep-inspect policy must be defined in spectrum discover before you create the policy. In the development of an application for extracting technical metadata from a range of file types, we are met wi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

Extend "deactivate data" to other applications, not only limited to Oracle

Currently, the "deactivate data" command is limited to Oracle data. It should be expanded to include the other application data such as DB2, SQL, etc. Also add the filespace option to the command.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Reduce ffdc ALL output size to always stay under 100GB

Disk space on the root filesystem in Spectrum Discover can be very limited, and when building support logs package for IBM support we need to ensure that the resulting log package is small enough to fit on disk, small enough to transfer off of the...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Add navigation arrows to timeframes in Spectrum Control - Storage Insights

Add navigation arrows to timeframes in Spectrum Control - Storage Insights.
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

increase IBM Spectrum Protect transfer rates to SWIFT/S3 capable ObjectStore

Current data chunks aggregation rate between TSM's deduplication engine and HTTP PUTs is too low to take full advantage of huge bandwidth SWIFT ObjectStore can provide, especially when Erasure Coded data placements algorithm is used.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

TS7700 MI - Inbound SSH (TCP Port 22) command line access to be allowed

Management Interface Inbound SSH (TCP Port 22) command line access to be allowed. This will provide functionality for IBM remote support personnel to directly access TS7700 while servicing without a need to connect via TSSC private network.
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

TS7700 BVIR utility Copy Audit ? add additional fields to help identify LVOL's needing attention.

Request to make changes to data being reported in the TS7700's BVIR (Bulk Volume Information Retrieval) “Copy Audit” utility. Currently Copy Audit reports the volser, the copy mode for each cluster and the removal state for each cluster. The custo...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Add a administrative socket to the SP server

Add a administrative socket to the dsmserv process, or a alternative way to send commands to the running process at the local system.Using the the dsmadmc is relay hard for scripting and always needs password to be specified.A socket is simple to ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

ODBC Enhancements for TSM 6.3

To enable access to data from the TSM Database, TSM until Version 5 enabledODBC using a TSM administrative user with limited authority. Since TSM6,ODBC is via the DB2 ODBC connect.The TSM ODBC connect documentation only describes TSM ODBC access u...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

GUI enhancement to better monitor core activity and not overall averages

GUI enhancement to monitor CPU and see all core thread activity. Current GUI limits via to average node level activity and this limits the data viewed
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration