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    Currency Support for spectrum protect for Snapshot

    We missing the Support of Spectrum Protect for Snapshot on rhel7.6 x86_64 Systems. Today the prereq checker complain that only 7.5 are supported. We use the snapshot function for db2 here.
    over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Planned for future release

    TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI multiple DB instances

    The FCM GUI of newest TDP Version works only with default dsm.opt.The older GUI could be started with CLI Option: tdpsqlc /tsmoptfile="<path>\dsm.opt".This function is not available for flashcopymanager.exe!Please refer to my Supportcase 134...
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Planned for future release

    Oracle 18c support SP 4 DB's

    I have a client who is installing Oracle 18c now and have a need for backups They have used Spectrum Protect in the past and want to continue to do so
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

    Backup Solution for Oracle 19c

    We have to be able to backup Oracle 19c
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

    Enable FCM to use thin-provisioned target volumes if source volumes are thin provisioned

    Currently it is not possible to use thin-provisioned target volumes as COPY (only with NOCOPY) with FCM even if the source volumes are thin-provisioned. This means for us to loose a lot of space for target volumes. The functionality is implemented...
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

    Multi Vendor Support for Snapshots in FCM/TSM

    Snapshot-based DP for Applications (with a broad Application Support, including Replication Control to a secondary Storage, for virtual and native Servers, including Application driven Single File Restores and Catalog Support) is seen more and mor...
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    Multi Vendor Support for Snapshots in FCM/TSM

    Snapshot-based DP for Applications (with a broad Application Support, including Replication Control to a secondary Storage, for virtual and native Servers, including Application driven Single File Restores and Catalog Support) is seen more and mor...
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

    Pre-Requisites Check Script

    In order to consider and check all points on the pre-requisite checklist for FCM on Unix, Linux a checking utility would ease the work a lot. Currently, the checklist is very complex and not all of the points are directly clear. Some points refer ...
    about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

    Ability to create a cascade of clones that are independent from each other

    If a database was cloned with FlashCopy Manager and this clone (D1) serves as source for another clone (D2) it is currently not possible to refresh D1 without deleting D2. For some scenarios this restriction has technical reasons. But by using ful...
    almost 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

    Autoskip integrity for Exchange DAG backups

    An option like /AUTOSKIPINTEGRITYCHECK would be nice to have in Exchange DAG setups, so that the DP agent/FCM itself could check if the specified database/databases has/have 2 or more healthy copies - if it that would be the cause, it would automa...
    about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

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