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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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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

TSM Ops Center screen layout

The pictures in the various Ops Center screens take up an inordinate amount of screen space, leaving little for the details. We should be able to toggle those charts and pictures off/on.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Not under consideration

Operational backup restart Delegation

Operational Delegation the ability to restart backup from the Admin Center, monitor daily schedules, and easy click restart within the admin center.
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Selectively install filesets with Auto Deployment or install only Filesets already deployed

The ability to select which filesets are installed during auto deployment. For security and system resource reasons, we install only features that will be used for each TSM Client. Auto deployment installed Hdw, HdwSnp, Image, and NAS when upgradi...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

FB & TSM Integration change node name

When driving FastBack integration with TSM through the Admin Centre, when creating a policy a user can't change the name of the node name. The name of the node is 'pulled' from FastBack. An option that I'd like to see is being able to define the n...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Extended firefox support

Currently the TSM AC only supports the browsers listed here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21410467 As TSM can be run on a variety of OSes the supported list of non-Windows browsers (only Firefox (FF) 2 (from October 2006) and F...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli Admin Center 6.2.0 : act logs are not inlcuded in interface for collection of logs

act logs are not inlcuded in interface for collection of logs;
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

AC should not add double quotes to the object string

33993,070,724I don't want AC to add double quotes to the object string (if it contains multiple file names) when the object string is edited or a new schedule is created by -create like schedule-.This schedules will get an error ANS1076E The speci...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration