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Add volume and host tagging and notes capability

It would be helpful to have the ability to apply filter-able tags and/or notes to volumes and hosts. VMware has this capability and it is useful for automation as well as organization. Tags can be used by automation to find a collection of objects...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Enhance AFM to transfer NFSv4 ACLs from NFS servers like Isilons and store the ACLs correct as GPFS ACLs

Storage Scale and Storage Scale System are great products. But in many cases, another storage is already used and there are no easy ways to migrate PBytes of data - except perhaps with AFM? Almost all installations use e.g. AD integrations and NFS...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Empty directories are not restored during a single file restore operation

If your restore collection contains also empty directories , the empty directories are not restored. We also need restore empty directories, which are used temporarily.The default according to the manual is "skip" empty directories. It is intentio...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

ACL support for Spectrum Scale file systems

Spectrum Protect does fully support Spectrum Scale filesystems. If special attributes of files in this file systems aremodified like setting or changing ACLs, on the next backup run thecomplete file will be backed up again, though only metadata wh...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Operation Center must have the capability to fully administrate and configure a Spectrum Protect Server

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center has developed into a very useful tool. Due to its clear structure and well thought-out functions, it is becoming increasingly popular, especially with new Spectrum Protect customers. To complete the picture o...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI - This is creating lots of confusion when they ask why values are not showing similarity and why there is big differences in val...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

Support routed networks for management and fsp networks

ESS documentation states that the FSP and Management networks for a stretched cluster has to be: All networks are flat, single namespace (ESS stretch cluster requirements) which I interpret to mean they must be same subnet, not routed. Practically...
7 months ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum 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...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration

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