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Storage Protect Family

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Operations Center alerting modification

Configure alerting only on the hub server. The hub server should be the monitoring instance which is configured to send emails to administrators defined on hub server. The configuration wizard only shows the admin id's of the hub server. This curr...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

SPP integration n the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO)

We have an urgent request from a Bank in Spain in UK to have IBM SPP integrated in the IBM Resiliency Orchestration tools (IRO/CRO) We heard that there are plans fro Q3 2019 but the customer will not accept this and wants the integration to happen...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Enhancemnt request for setup.sh in TDP HANA 8.1.1.0 for non-local sidadm users support

We had opened case (TS001622349) as we were getting user related error while running setup.sh for Data Protection for SAP HANA 8.1.1.0 because we are not using local user. hanatest02:/opt/tivoli/tsm/tdp_hana # ./setup.shIBM Spectrum Protect for En...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Future consideration

Use different option and configuration files in FlashCopyManager for TDP SQL

Since the TDP for SQL GUI has been deprecated and replaced by FlashCopyManager as a GUI, we are unable to select which "dsm.opt" and "tdpsql.cfg" files will be used to perform backups and restores i.e. we are forced to use the default ones: * "c:\...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 3 Not under consideration

SPP Enhanced VMs view. Colomns sorting.

Enhanced the view of the VMs. Sorting by columns. Adding colums in the view so we can see options selected per VMS. Options per VMs in a reports also.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Change nodenames for SP for Hyper-V during installation

Please make it possible to be able to change nodenames for the Hyper-V nodes when installing Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Future consideration

Oracle ACFS

Requesting that TSM support the backup of Oracle ACFS data. Thank you for your time,Brian
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

FCM - Managing Multiple SQL instances from one console

There are 2 instances of SQL which have been configured with 2 separate optfiles as per the old standard however the Flashcopy manager gui defaults to use the dsm.opt file in c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\tdpsql folder. We need to have separate shor...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Planned for future release

Change in DB/View structure for Proxy agent/target and nodegroup/node relations

Have relational information between nodes/nodegroups - and proxy-agents/targets stored in tables (or presented in views) - instead of comma-seperated lists.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Operation Center - limit resource usage

Operation Center should have a way to limit the resource that it could use from the servers. By not having, this simple monitoring tool can put the production enviroenment in danger, using far more resources that it should.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 3 Not under consideration