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Spectrum Protect Snapshot - Support with HyperSwap Volumes

Hi Team I have a customer who is looking for support for FlashCopy Manager (Spectrum Protect Snapshot) with HyperSwap volumes. From the link below I see that it is not currently supported:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21455924 T...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Mgr to support multiple storages of same kind

Flashcopy Mgr currently dont support to take snapshots from multiple storages. We would like it to be able to take snapshots from more than one storage device. The XIV product is supporting cross-consistency groups, meaning that you can have volum...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

FCM for VMware: Linux In-Guest Application Consistency

This enhancement request describes an important and very customer relevant improvement of the backup mechanisms of Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments (TSMfVE) and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCMfVE). The existing support to gene...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

I would like VGS to be added to SPS

Goodday As part of our Oracle in a SAP environment landscape we do bi-weekly refreshes of PROD onto a QA system. We also get ad-hoc requests for other clones as well as clones for Projects that means we need to keep a snapshot around for 6-12 mont...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Manager VMware In-Guest Support

VMWare In-Guest Support for FCM. Install, handle and use FCM in virtual machines which are attached to storage subsystems (SVC, ...) with full functionality as on physical machines.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

SVCDTA volumes with same Preferred Node As source

We are creating snapshot on Flashsytem 7200 using a SVCDTA configuration;volumes are created automatically but not on the same preferred node as the source volume. According IBM to IBM best practices (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/flashcopy-co...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Restore of Archive-Mailbox from Exchange via Flash Copy Manager

Swiss National Bank is not satisfied with the answer we got for PMR 05632,031,848. We were referred to Technote 1598343 ( http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21598343 ) which states that TDP Exchange / FlashCopy Manager does not suppo...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Support DB2 systems running on GPFS with FCM

DB2 supports build and operation on GPFS filesystems. Currently FCM does not support DB2 on GPFS (except for pureScale). Unilever would like a single filesystem pattern across pureScale and non-pureScale - based on GPFS. This implies an ability to...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

FCM for Oracle on AIX to support multipile Database with same user id running on one server (ORACLE_SID)

FCM for Oracle on AIx to support backup server which run more than 1 Database with the same userid.To work with ORACLE_SID and not ORACLE_HOME.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) - SP for VE support

My customer has deployed a new vCenter on Amazon Web Services, using VMWare on Cloud (VMC) as hypervisor. They are already migrating onpremise production machines to this environment, but even following KB https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/10...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration