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My votes: Storage Discover

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Enable Discover to scan for Data Classes such as Last Name, First Name, Date of Birth, GPS Coordinates, Latitude and Longitude

The Discover product when used for scanning an unstructured source (document) is able to use the Regex based data classes in Cloud Pak for Data/ Watson Knowledge Catalog. However, Discover product is not able to leverage non-regex based data class...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Enable Discover to complete full scan of Unstructured source (document) and collect metrics such as gross count and net count

The Discover product when used for scanning an unstructured source (document) stops scanning the document after detecting the first instance of the data class such as SSN or Phone number. At this time, the results from using the Discover product o...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Add new option for the tag value in content search policy: "1st Capturing Group"

In content search policies, you can use a regular expression to match content, selecting True/False or "Value matching expression" to be used as the tag's value. For example: Regular Expression: \b[\w_-]+\d{5}[\w_-]+\bContent: /opt/applications/da...
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 3 Not under consideration

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 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Improvement in Data connections filter in UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a filter would be very useful especially because we are already dealing with more than 300 data sources. At the moment it is very cumbersome to f...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Functionality already exists

Provide description of "Indexing new scan data" on Spectrum Discover web UI

We can see "Indexing new scan data" in the web interface under Data Connections -> Scan history. Some scans show "Indexing new scan data" for days and we don't see any progress. Is it possible to display all steps ("Scanning NFS mount", "Indexi...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

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 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 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 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

Linux command for managing Spectrum Discover

Most UNIX/Linux users are used to work on the command line. I would like to propose the following idea: create a command called "sdcli" (Spectrum Discover cli) or "dmcli" (Data Management cli) which can be a shell or Python script and can be insta...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Include VMware Tools in Spectrum Discover appliance

To be able to make consistent backups of Spectrum Discover appliance, please include open-vm-tools in the OVA version of Spectrum Discover, and please include upgrades of open-vm-tools as a part of the Spectrum Discover upgrade.
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

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