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Flashcopy Manager

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FCM Cloning: Lift multiple user limitation for Oracle

For the cloning process of FlashCopy Manager (FCM), it requires two users at the target clone system. One user to recover the cloned database (old sid) and one user to start it with the new sid. Each user runs with his own dedicated $ORACLE_SID. T...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

Add DEDUP_DEVICE option to DB2 (Offload) backup to TSM

The Offlload backup of a snapshot to TSM doesn't support the DB2 Backup command option of DEDUP_DEVICE, which optimises de-duplication of the backup images and significantly reduces backup storage.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 4 Delivered

Change request of task priority.

On behalf of customer, IBM account team write,-Change task priority of backup tasks and reconcile task.Based on current design, reconcile and backup(snapshot) can not run parallel.During backing up, if the reconcile task starts backup task gets de...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

Flash copy manager support for RHEL 6.8

Currently there is no FCM version released for RHEL(Redhat enterprise Linux) 6.8. The latest version of FCM 4.1.6 does support RHEL 7, but don't support RHEL 6.8. Currently our environment is running on RHEL 6.7 with FCM 4.1.4 and we are in the pr...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

Let Spectrum Protect Shapshot Support the SQL Server 2008 SP1

The customer want to construct the online backup of SQL server.Hypervisor is HyperV (Windows 2012) and SQL Server is 2008 SP1.The customer expect the Spectrum Protect Snapshot make it.However, Spectrum Protect Snapshot support not SQL Server 2008S...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

FCM CBT support for power-off VMs

Change block tracking is not supported without a snapshot. FCM doesn't take a snapshot of power-off VMs before the Backup, so CBT is not working and a full VM Backup is performed
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

FCM VM_DONT_QUIESCE_ON_SNAPSHOT

TSM FCM for VMware lack of support for no QUIESCE_ON_SNAPSHOT
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

FlashCopy Manager version 4.1 support for DB2 version 9.7

We installed xcli v.3.1.1 for FCM 3.2 The configuration failed as the system indicated that xcli v2.3.1 was required. So we don't understand how it can fail if v3.1.x is one of the supported and tested versions for FCM 3.2. Can they please avail t...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

Allow Oracle Control File in Data-DG

allow Oracle control files in any ASM-DG
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 22 Delivered

FCM4Unix: Oracle ASM "asm_diskstring" to be used is not documented

The FCM4Unix documentation does not state that FCM requires the usage of asm_diskstring=ORCL:* while adding ASMlib Disks to disk groups and during disk discovery. If ORCL:* is not used or the asm_diskstring contains other filters ASMlib disks migh...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

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