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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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Enable the use of VPC Endpoint Interface URL for S3 bucket access when defining Cloud Container Storage Pool in Operations Ce

When defining a cloud container storage pool, an option of 'Other' URL is given, and in the CLI a CLOUDUrl can be specified with a custom URL. Instructions say to use the region S3 endpoint URL. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.11?...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Operations Center - Completed Tasks Duration

Operations Center provides a user friendly GUI allowing TSM administrators to easily manage their TSM environment
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Operation Center features

The Operations Center for TSM needs some updates to become really useful:s. attached file
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Not under 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...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 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...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

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.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Client Auto-Deploy feature enable in TSM Enterprise Configuration Environment

We are trying to do auto-deploy of TSM clients from v5.5 - 6.2 onwards to v7.1.1.1 for windows and unix through Tivoli Integrated portal but we are getting ANR3200E error. The TSM server run on Linux OS at 6.3.4.00 version. This is a limitation of...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 7 Not under consideration

Support TSM Administration Center Version 6.3 when using Firefox browser versions newer than 3.0, 3.5, or 3.6.

The browser requirements for TSM Administration Center Version 6.3 are Firefox 3.0, 3.5, and 3.6. The current Firefox version is 22. The Admin Center should use Firefox version 3.6 or later.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

TSM 6.3.5 Admin Center Windows Server 2012

Admin Center is not currently supported in Windows Server 2012 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21410467 Install shows the below error. Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException ZeroGu2: Windows DL...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Not under consideration

Ability to lock/unlock a node in TSM Operations Center GUI

To make Operations Center GUI more useful for this account, we need to have the ability to lock/unlock client nodes from the interface, so that the person using the GUI for monitoring does not have to resort to running the commands at the command ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration