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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

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

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

Operation Center - Security Notification Enhancement

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

Restore VM to the max. possible configuration in case of any issues detected instead to force restore only to minimal config

We have now experienced several situations where VM's were restored with only a minimal configuration because of problems (e.g. maximum number of available ports in port group was reached, unrecognized new parameters in VM config etc.). For furthe...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 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

Provide additional protection when using the decommission command against Oracle or DB2 nodes.

Spectrum Protect Oracle and DB2 client decommission can lead to immediate data expiration and data loss. Due to the copygroup settings required for Oracle and DB2, the risk of using the decommission node command can inadvertently lead to data loss...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Centralized Configuration Management for SPP Server

Provide option of centralized configuration management for SPP when using multiple SPP Servers.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support of CentOS for SPfVE as Datamover

Due to licensing issues, we would like to use CentOS as the operating system. Unfortunately we could not find the support in the support matrix.After consultation with the support I was informed that this support is unfortunately not considered.Si...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Server Cross-replication with Client Acceptors to both on all clients

Site fail-over/fail-back of the "restore" function (read from ISP server(s)) is already provided in the ISP server product. Site fail-over/fail-back of the "backup" function (write to ISP server) is not. If site A goes down, backups must be suspen...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review