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IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots 4.1.6 support VMware 6.5

The customer HDI Seguros have IBM FlashSystem 7200 and IBM Spectrum control. They need create snapshots with an schedule with retentions. So, they need to use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots for this Use case. They Have VMware 6.5 and Oracle DB.
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 11 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 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Decomission Enhancements

We have been talking to multiple large clients regarding decommission feature.Decomission Node/VM is a great utility but it doesn't fully support all customers needs in it's current form. Decomission Node/VM should support the following options fr...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Break message on FlashCopy step

On the Control server, the option :Target LPAR Device Setup define the Backup device description and the Backup device serial number.If one off this option is bad, the FlashCopy backup is break, one message on the target server stop the backup. On...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 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.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

TFCM with Oracle ASM single user environment

Oracle supports the use of a single user setup to manage both the database instance and the ASM services. As such the client has standardized on a single user in it's Oracle ASM environment. TFCM requires both an Oracle instance user for the datab...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

FCM: Opt to include non-db filesystems in fcm for db2

Need non-db filesystems propery included along with db-filesystems during "db2 backup as snapshot" Currently, fcm allows a NEGATIVE_LIST param, but the allowed extra data is not properly "frozen" (chfs -a freeze). Cloning has a similar option (FLA...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

EMC PowerPath calls for FlashCopy Manager

RFE for Spectrum Protect Snapshot to support EMC PowerPath calls.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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