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Storage Discover

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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

Using DB2 JSON functionality in Spectrum Discover

We've found a need for more complex tag values in our use cases for Spectrum Discover. An example of this is the ability to associate an entity with a document, where the entity has its own attributes. One such entity could be a "creator", with at...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Discover Reporting

Spectrum Discover is a powerful and useful tool, however, the reporting capability needs to match the product capability.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

Add a column to the file report with the backup time

We are missing a column in Spectrum Discover file report for Spectrum Protect, which shows the latest backup date and time for each file.
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under 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

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.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

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

Requesting export and import of metadata ability to second Spectrum Discover instance.

Requesting a method of exporting the metadata database out of Spectrum Discover to a second Spectrum Discover server. This is of interest when there is a desire to share select parts of the metadata via a Spectrum Discover system without connectiv...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

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

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