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Spectrum Copy Data Management should be able individually rename target filesystems

SCDM can add a prefix, suffix, or replace a string when changing target filesystem names. It would be useful to have a one to one mapping of the source and targets to be renamed as an additional option.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Data Copy Management should be able to disable archive log mode on the target

SCDM should be able to bring up a target database and take it out of archive log mode. Most users do not run test copies of their databases in archive log mode.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management should update /etc/fstab

SCDM should automatically update /etc/fstab on linux targets when it mounts replicated filesystems and also remove them when unmounting them. Then filesystems will automatically be mounted if the target system reboots.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add navigation arrows to timeframes in Spectrum Control - Storage Insights

Add navigation arrows to timeframes in Spectrum Control - Storage Insights.
about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

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 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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...
about 2 years 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...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Increase tagname character limit from 32 to 64 characters or more

We are using Spectrum Discover in a research and academia environment. Whenlooking towards how we will curate and manage tags as the number of includedprojects grows, we see that the tagname limit of 32 characters is a problem.When extracting exif...
about 4 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

Independent Certificates for Key Servers

Need to separate the client and server certificates for SafeNets Gemalto Key Servers. Currently, they are on the same certificate.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 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...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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