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When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file.

1. Problem: When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file. For example, consider a pdf file (fileA.pdf) that h...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog

Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog. Problem Statement: Today Storage Fusion Catalog has regular expression (regex) pattern matching capability to detect PII in unstructured data. Wh...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Exclude VMs from VM-Backup in connection with a CloptSet

a function like Exclude.VM which excludes complete VMs from Backup serial able (not overwrites value before) / chain able / like other excludes In combination with a ClientOptionSet on the TSM-Server
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

CSM for z/OS - Active/Standby on different storage systems

We installed the standby CSM server on remote site on a different sysplex with different storage systems. All storage connections from the active CSM were synchronized to the standby CSM server. But the standby CSM server has no access to the stor...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Adding role to resync Management Servers

We installed active and standby CSM server on z/OS. If one system IPLed, we implemented automation scripts that automatically resync the Management Servers after the CSM is started. With this Automation, we are able to IPL the system without the n...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Consider fiber channel port speed as attribute for alerting creation

Consider fiber channel actual and capable port speed as port attribute for alerting creation
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Direct SPP Primary Backups to Cloud Storage.

Direct Primary backups to Cloud Storage. without the need to send it first to vSnap and then create an additional copy to Cloud Storage
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Global Preferences Option to ignore alerts for skipped RDM and independent disks

Currently if a backup job runs and a VM has RDMs or independent disks these flag an error and are skipped and the job is marked as partial rather than completed so flags alerts in the dashboard. A customer has asked for this to be an option in glo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Autoscaling of Storage Fusion HCI hosts for IBM Cloud Satellite

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Satellite supports autoscaling, however it’s limited to hosts already assigned to Cloud Satellite requiring pre-creation and allocation of host in Fusion to Cloud Satellite. In a Fusion HCI with multiple separate IBM...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Use Fusion master nodes as host for IBM Cloud Satellite master nodes

If you currently use Fusion HCI as host platform for IBM Cloud Satellite you will use the Fusion HCI worker nodes. This results in a underutilization of the Fusion HCI Master nodes. By enabling the IBM Cloud Satellite location master nodes on the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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