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Tivoli Flash Copy Manager for Solaris 10 HA with native Oracle11g DB

Hi We need help on this.SETUP / ENVIRONMENT:Customer had SVC configured as split cluster with code 7.0.2.1 and with XIV GEN3 as the backend storage. Customer had 3 nodes Solaris machine with Solaris 10 Cluster and the Database is Oracle 11g ( nati...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 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...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 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

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...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Planned for future release

TDP for SQL exclusion of offline databases in backups

TDP for SQL agent skip/ignore/exclude offline databases in the backup process. Error code:ANE4993E (Session: 304432, Node: proxynode) TDP MSSQL Win32 ACO3002 Data Protection for SQL: full backup of database BannerProvisioning from server node fail...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 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...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Planned for future release

Can we use FCM installed on Windows to manage luns on Aix

1)We have flashcopy manager 3.2 installed on windows,can we use it to do flashcopy of the luns ,presented to Aix server.if Yes,how it can be achieved.If no,any other remedy to fix this.2)We have SVC of version 6.2.0.5,Aix of 5.3 and DB2 of v9.1,3)...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 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

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...
about 11 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...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release