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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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Client Deploy should be able to update TDP clients, or at least skip clients which should not be upgraded w/o TDP updates.

The current client deploy is not TDP aware. It is up to us to track which of the 8000 clients belong on the same host, and which ones are TDP. In some cases, seeing the policy domain and node name is enough to figure it out, but not always. Some T...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Customization of Client Auto-deployment Schedule

We would like to modify the auto deploy schedule in order to make it successful in our environment.In our infra, we do have multiple nodes configured for same host, hence multiple CAD services are running.After version 8.1.11, we are unable to sta...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use the OC Autodeploy feature offline for client upgrades

Currently, for the OC Auto-deploy feature to upgrade existing clients it requires internet access and connectivity to the IBM repository.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Reduce Spectrum Protect Operatin Center query to bring down load on SP database

Regarding TS004537647. That is correct that there's no issue with finishing the daily work in a timely matter. There are some tunables to reduce the frequency of queries or stop them altogether. One of the background threads that is the busiest is...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect O.C. http protocol for SSL offload device

We use a proxy for SSL security, so it is preferable for us to configure the proxy for http protocol instead of https. But IBM stopped supporting http protocol in TSM Operations Center. We would like to have http available for Operation Center again.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Locking mechanism for TSM oldest backup

There is no locking mechanism in TSM to prevent the oldest backup from expiring during the restore operation unless the expiration process is stopped.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

TSM client Web GUI in TSM vwersion 8.1.4

TSM client Web GUI availability in TSM server version 8.1.4.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Manual client package import for Operation Center client deployment

Possibility for a manual import of client packages which can be used by the Spectrum Protect Operation Center to update clients.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Proxy Support for Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Possiblilty to configure Spectrum Protect Operation Center (hub instance) to use a http/https proxy server for downloading client packages used for the client autodeployment feature.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 5 Not under consideration

REST API as part of build test plan

The REST API is not being tested prior to packaging new Operation Center builds. This was found in 8.1.4 because a module version was upgraded, but not updated in the server.xml file. No one in L1 nor L2 knew about this issue, but it was immediate...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

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