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"DATABASE_MEMORY like" option in profile CLONING section

It should be possible to clone SAP/DB2 environment to another environment without requiring the same amount of memory just because of the check/recovery phase of the cloning process.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Snapshot compatibility with FS7200 / NVMe Disk

We were checking this document and realize that FS7200 is not in the list, this config is made based on FCM / NVme disk.This is an environment which includes Power server and FS7200 like a said before and the needs for the Spectrum Protect Snaphot...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Tivoli FCM for VMware

using FCM 3.2.0 We are an SAP shop which on a frequent basis refreshes PRD to QAS environments. We wanted to use FCM to perform this landscape "refresh" . One of the requirements though is to preserve the "TARGET" environment (unmount FS and renam...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Request that FCM functionality be enhanced to support nested mount points that are stored on more than one volume group.

We request that FCM functionality be enhanced to support nested mount points that are stored on more than one volume group. There is no indication in the FCM error message to indicate why this functionality is not in FCM. The error message simply ...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

FCM support for Oracle DataGuard

The customer would like to use FCM with Oracle DataGuard to take point in time copies of Oracle DataGuard (source or target volumes).
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Delivered

FCM: Clone Oracle DB on ASM.

Many Oracle installations are running over ASM. The possibility to do a clone of this databases is necessary.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

FlashCopy Manager should support also NetApp for Flash copies under Unix

The FlashCopy Manager supports currently only the IBM subsystems DS8000, SVC, V7000 and XIV. Many customers are using NetApp storage because of their comprehensive snapshot and replication functionality. These customers want to use TSM as the Unif...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 5 Delivered

Offload restore

There us already a function for offload backup. This works great. I would very much like a offload restore (not lanfree). Data would flow from tsm server to a offload host on dedicated luns. Once complete, the luns would be dismounted from the off...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Delivered

Cloning support for custom applications

Add support for cloning of custom application filesystems to support creating and refreshing development and test environments.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Delivered

FCM managing Exchange 2010 DAG backups as same objects for both active and passive nodes.

RFE: FCM must manage backups taken from Exchange 2010 active and passive nodes in DAG configuration as same objects and keep the versions accordingly. That means expiration is done independent of being active or passive. That will help to provide ...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Delivered

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