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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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customer needs more information in Operations Center to be able to effectively perform disaster recovery.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to effectively perform Disaster Recovery (testing or real-life). This includes:- Volume history information for DB Backup/DB Snapshot.- DRM Volumes and status/location. - volume...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Provide OC / SP error that will notify us when server instance crash or hang

Is there an OC / SP error that will notify us when dsmserv is down (db2 is either down or up) and, notify us when an instance appears to be hung? IF that can be produced later on that would be a great advantage to keep administrators ahead with an...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Operation Center reports to be saved and duplicate a report template

Current version of SP OC interface doesn't allow to save report results . It has only email option.I have clients still using TSM ORT tool to save reports or email . Due the lack of save function within SP OC we can not utilise reporting.If we cre...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

TLS Email Support

Today does IBM Storage Protect OC has support to email reports over email, but this hasn't been updated for a wild now and the supported protocol is a unsecure SMTP port 25 communcation and we can always create a SMTP tunnel to a Cloud SMTP Server...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Change mail-function for OC and reports, email support for user/password

Open relay mailserver is not a common way anymore inside organisations to handle mail. I need support (new feature / way to handle mail) for operation center for reports which supports user/password and connections to non open relay mailservers al...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

customer needs to be able to manage Spectrum Protect volumes not in defined within a storage pool.

A customer needs more information in the Operations Center to be able to manage volumes not part of a storage pool. Specifically:- volumes containing exported data.- volumes containing backupsets.- DB backup/DBSnapshot media.- volumes correlated t...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Proactive support service within Operations Center

Operations Center Proactive Support with Health monitor and Advisor.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center

HiI try to generate Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center but there is no monthly option available. Currently available options are either daily or weekly only. Would you please provide e-fix for the monthly option? My operati...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

SP SERVER/OP CENTER: ENHANCE OPERATONS CENTER TO MANIPULATE ALL THE SCHEDULING FUNCTIONS AS IN SERVER COMMAND LINE

Enhance Operations Center with the same functions to control Client Scheduling with the same options present with Server Command Line in a WEB/GUI Interface and view.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Make the Operations Center Server Activity display user-configurable

Customer would like to see the Operations Center Server Details...Summary tab "Activity over 24 Hours" be more configurable. Specifically, it would be helpful the Activity period could be lengthened and the mouse hover show the actual date and time.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration