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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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Locking mechanism for TSM oldest backup

There is no locking mechanism in TSM to prevent the oldest backup from expiring during the restore operation unless the expiration process is stopped.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Events and reports from the IBM Spectrum Protect from VE to the Operation Center.

Centralize the possibility to view from the IBM Spectrum Protect Operational Center all the events generated by the IBM Spectrum Protect for VE and also the creation, execution and visualization of the IBM Spectrum Protect VE reports from the Oper...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

TSM operations center option to set or disable 'at risk' for RC4 and RC8

Tivoli Storage manager operations center shows clients as 'at risk' when backups are completed with RC8. We would like to see an option in which you can specify when a client is at risk:- backup must be completed with no messages- backup may be co...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under consideration

Display filespace occupancy per Storage Pool in API

Display the "FSLOGICALMB" for all used storage pools of the filespace at the API "oc/api/servers/{server}/clients/{client}/filespaces".to bee non disruptive to the existing data format do this by adding a dictionary containing the storage pool and...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Customisation of reports - possibility to add a customer logo

We would like to have the possibility to add a customer logo to the report mails and to change the format of the output from the SQL queries.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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

Support for Ubuntu

Redhat have now killed CentOS and there is really no option to get a cheap operating system for non critical application and small operations then Ubuntu Server or Fedora Server. And if a non critical application like IBM Spectrum Protect Operatio...
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

Possibility to manage tivoli clients schedule with tivoli operations center

Tivoli Storage Manager operations Center will be the new Administration gui and reporting for Tivoli Servers, unfortunately mange clients schedule (like create new schedule for a client or change begin backup time) is not possible at the moment wi...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release

Operations Center does not allow a Container-Copy to be defined on a Directory Pool which Node Reps to a server using Cloud

When a Directory Container Pool is using Node Replication to replicate to a server which stores received data in a Cloud Container Pool, the Operations Center GUI does not all a Copy-Container Pool to be defined to allow a PROTECT STGPOOL to tape ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration