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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 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 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 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

FCM Win: Links to the VSS HW Provider Websites are out of date

The configuration wizard in the MMC prints a warning if no VSS Hardware Provider is installed. If you click on this Warning, then a list with links to websites appear where it is possible to download the VSS HW Provider. The problem: The links in ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

Oracle Database Cloning improvements in FCM

Two enhancements are requested. 1) Currently FCM requires environment variable ORACLE_HOME to be set in the users environment right after logon. We request that FCM should read this value from /etc/oratab so that we can have a single user for mult...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 4 Planned for future release

Add a log file to show the CLI command that were done from the GUI

Create a log file that will show each GUI command (backup, attach, detach, restore) how it is translated into a CLI command (similar to what XIV has).It should only show the CLI commands (and maybe the final status of success / fail), nothing else.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Planned for future release

Tivoli FCM individual mail box restore problem

restore the mail box with it's locale rather then change the locale setting of the exchange server everytime.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

FCM: Unix/Linux Netapp NFS support for DB2/Oracle/SAP

FCM v3.2 for Unix/Linux supports Netapp Storage via FC or iSCSI, but not NFS. This RFE is to support nfs as well.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

FCM Win: Support for Oracle Database

Currently FlashCopy Manager support MSSQL Server and MS Exchange on Windows, but no Oracle Databases. Also: Support for SAP BR'Tools must be considered if Oracle is used in conjunction with SAP.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

FCM: Option to only delete clone mappings

FlashCopy Manager creates a system copy by performing a FlashCopy in the Storage System. This implies that the Storage System (like SVC) creates a copy relation between a source and target LUN. Some customers require to remove this copy relation t...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

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