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Spectrum Protect (Operations Center)

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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.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Client Deploy should be able to update TDP clients, or at least skip clients which should not be upgraded w/o TDP updates.

The current client deploy is not TDP aware. It is up to us to track which of the 8000 clients belong on the same host, and which ones are TDP. In some cases, seeing the policy domain and node name is enough to figure it out, but not always. Some T...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

Client Deploy should not break 100% if one single server fails package prepare. Failure causes should show up in the GUI. Documentation should show troubleshooting details.

If you have multiple spectrum protect servers which are replicating, and then you enable client deploy,then if any one of the deploy targets has an error, such as a replica server that was offline,and then if you have daily replication which pushe...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Provide ISP Client Management Services also for Linux on Power LE

We use ISP CMS to rollout ISP Client configuration on our ISS Cluster systems. Now, besides x86 based ISS Clusters, we got our first IBM POWER LE based cluster and recognised that IBM does not ship ISP CMS for POWER LE. But we need CMS also on the...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Chaining Opscenters for REST API via one central Opscenter

Having several Opscenters managing several Spectrum Protect Instances, and having currently the restriction only to have 1 Hub server, this makes Management by branches and departments complicated. Therefore we appreciate to group Servers of speci...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

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.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Not under 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 9 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...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

TSM Auto-Deploy/OC and roadmap for ability to Custom Install Package

We are looking for the ability to add a custom installable component like "TSM Web Client" to an auto-deploy upgrade.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future 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 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration