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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 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

FCM for Vmware to support Vmware Site Recovery Manager sites

FCM for Vmware to support customer which also use vmware Site Recovery Manager.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

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.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 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...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Use FlashCopyManager with a DB2 single partition DB with multiple containers

FCM must be able to manage DB2 configured in a single partition DB with multiple containers (configuration supported by DB2)
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle DB on Windows

The feature we are requisting is full support for Oracle 10 and higher on Windows Server OS'es. We are right now using Oracle 10g on windows 2003 64bit and 11g on 2008 R2.The feature should contain scheduling, management of Flashcopy versions and ...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Thighten the relationship to Hardware based VSS providers

Whether FCM 3.1 is sending a VSS based snapshot to same disk or is making storagesystem based snapshots/clones is transparrent in FCM 3.1.Desicion for snapshot or clone cannot be done thru FCM 3.1 UI.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

FCM support for Oracle DataGuard

The customer would like to use FCM with Oracle DataGuard to take point in time copies of Oracle DataGuard (source or target volumes).
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Unix/Linux: Support for csh Shell

Currently FCM supports ksh and bash as Unix/Linux shell. Some customers standardized the csh shell in their environment due to SAP history. Unfortunately some scripts which perform recovery on the clone system (during FCM cloning) fail if the data...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Unix/Linux: Support for csh Shell

Currently FCM supports ksh and bash as Unix/Linux shell. Some customers standardized the csh shell in their environment due to SAP history. Unfortunately some scripts which perform recovery on the clone system (during FCM cloning) fail if the data...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration