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Allow custom configuration of Spectrum Scale scanner

Allow the specification of Spectrum Scale "mmapplypolicy" command details to tailor the scanning granularity for Spectrum Discover. E.g. do not scan snapshots by e.g. not scanning the .mmsnapshot directory.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Add a dictionary search

We can already use regex to inspect documents and add tags to them. But is there a more convenient way to add whole dictionaries? I would like to add the following functionality: We define a dictionary called "Hamburg" with hundreds or possibly th...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 2 Not under consideration

Compress files on initial placement

V5 Functionality. Allow a file placement policy to specify compression. The fast compression library combined with the compressed data write will be faster than the time taken to write the uncompressed data to disk and the same for reading. So the...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Support for more than 16 tape drives

Michael at Navy Federal Credit Union would like to be able to add more than 16 tape drives to TS7700 in future.
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Lustre File System Support

In our many ongoing deals, "Lustre Support" is required by our customer.Luster Filesystem is supported by many other vendors, and our many potential customers have already introduced Luster Filesystem to their systems.Moreover, Luster support is o...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Synchronize policy information to another SP server

There is a Spectrum Protect environment with 2 Spectrum Protect servers. Server A is the primary server to which the SP clients connect to, which stores alll SP client data in first place, and on which all SP client node information, associations ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Data Integrity Verification during storage pool hierarchy (copy/migration)

We use IBM TSM for our long term data archives (company asset), and we regularly copy the primary storage pool (tape) to copy-storage pool (tape), mainly for Disaster Recovery. In addition, IBM TSM migrates data from pool to pool as a regular proc...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency

The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

DECOM / DEACTIVATE by future date

Requesting DECOMM VM, DECOMM NODE and/or DEACTIVATE commands be enhanced to allow specifying a future date. This could be parsed during EXPIRE, or possibly some other operation that gives more notice. Alternatively, if DEACTIVATE could be modified...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

TSM4VE - requirement of Windows proxy for file-level restore in Linux environments

Setting up a TSM4VE file-level restore for Linux in a Linux only environment requires a Windows based TSM4VE proxy. Customer requested support for a Linux only based TSM4VE proxy instead.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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