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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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add more function on TSM operation Center

• If is it possible we can setup server group, each user access Ops center, he/she can choose their server group to review and operation, • For sever webpage, is it possible to show both TSM instance name and OS host name, since we have several TS...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 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

add webproxy/authentication for TSM Auto Client Deployment ftp access

The Auto Client Deployment function in the TSM Admin Center has the ability to connect to the IBM ftp servers and automatically download client packages, which assists managing large corporate environments. Unfortunately, large corporate environme...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 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

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

Operations Center - Completed Tasks Duration

Operations Center provides a user friendly GUI allowing TSM administrators to easily manage their TSM environment
over 9 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
over 9 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...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 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

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...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 7 Not under consideration