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TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

Multiple transfer streams between pools for data from a single node

We use a TSM system where the nodes/clients push data first to disk, then the TSM server migrate the data from disk to tape.We have several use cases where nodes periodically push data faster than the ~350MB/s that our tape drives (TS1150) can han...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

server support on windows server 2019

Windows server 2019 is widely used and users/customers expecting support for spectrum protect server and operation center on this platform
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Global Exclude List

We are after a Global Exclude list of VMs that we can use to exclude VMs across ALL SLA Policies in SPP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Multitenancy, support for multiple AD/ldap

SPP need support for Multitenancy and ability to add multiple AD/ldap (Under System->LDAP/SMTP) so MSPs can protect multiple customers with one SPP solution and let customer decide which users/groups should have access to what in SPP.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Operation Center - Security Notification Enhancement

Hello Team, Looking for some enhancement for Operation center, Security Notification Feature
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

S3 Object Agent, Slow Metadata Retrieval

When querying metadata from the S3 object agent, e.g. requests against filesystem structure, dir list, deleting expired data/snapshots, response time is very slow (50min+). This causes applications (e.g. ElasticSearch) which use the API to throw e...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Create Reports for Data which is send to Object Storage for single Clients / Servers

Hello actually we need to create Reports for Data which is sent from SPP to TSM Object Storage within additional copies and archives. I can not find a report type in SPP which supports the report for data amounts for additional copies / archives. ...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Possibility for monthly and annual Archiving to TSM Tape

When configuring additional copies with offload on TSM, you can only use container pools for storage, but container pools cannot be migrated to tape. Since we only use all-flash SAN storage, this is a very costly solution. For our customer, we nee...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration