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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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TSM Operation Center features

The Operations Center for TSM needs some updates to become really useful:s. attached file
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Not under consideration

Support standards for browser interoperability

As per requirements listed at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21515628 TSM Admin Center requires an obsolete, broken, unsupported brain dead version of Firefox. According to the requirements, version 3.5 is required for full funct...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

SPF-I-3280 .. regarding this idea .. can you please explain how this function is working

There is a customer requirement to generate a report from event table .. to have a daily overview from client backup .. to have start time, endtime, and status from each backup. Additionally the customer need the output from the client, which Mgmt...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Under review

run OC reports and put result locally, then send the files in any way other than mail

How work with operation center to send mail since most mailservers demand authorization as of today and dont really like "anonymous" sending of mail. All reports are then blocked. It could be also of interset to see if one can run OC reports and p...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Client Deploy should not break 100% if one single server fails package prepare. Failure causes should show up in the GUI. Documentation should show troubleshooting details.

If you have multiple spectrum protect servers which are replicating, and then you enable client deploy,then if any one of the deploy targets has an error, such as a replica server that was offline,and then if you have daily replication which pushe...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future 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

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

Alerts frequency for Spectrum Protect Serves

We would like to request that an update to the code for the alerts frequency to be an adjustable settings, since as of now, it alerts every hour and cannot be changed.Thanks!
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add client backup status, backup files, size, date details for report with dashboard to understand backup failure and success

Product Tivoli Fastbackup for workstations 7.1.4.0 We are unable to get correct meaning full report on low level for TFB clients.1.We want report with client name, user identity, start date of backup, last backup date, last backup error, successfu...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

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