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    Add TS1160 support to V7 Storage Agent

    Platin/PlatiniumCustomer VW has more than 200 physical HP/UX and SUN Solaris server, running several applications, including Oracle, some of them larger than 100 TB. All these server are using TSM TDP with LAN free backup. VW purchased the TS4500 ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 1 Not under consideration

    Support TSM Storage Agent to be used in virtual machines for "Serverfree" backup to shared disk

    IBM GPFS is a supported file system for performing "server free" backups to shared disks (similar to LANfree backups, which are going from a TSM client system with TSM for SAN directly to a tape). At the moment, this method (Server free backup to ...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

    Sync Snapshot information marked for deletion or deleted from the SPS side with the FlashSystem

    Currently, When we execute command "./fcmcli -f inquire_detail" the list of all the snapshots taken by the SPS is displayed. CASE 1 : In case of the parameter MAX_VERSIONS when the new snapshot is taken, automatically older snapshot version exceed...
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future 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...
    over 9 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...
    almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    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

    Improve information in ANR3605E messages

    Any ANR3605E message which appears in the server activity log does not indicate which storage agent is the subject of the communication failure. In large LAN-free environments (10s or 100s of storage agents) this can make identifying the source of...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Not under consideration

    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

    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...
    almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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