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Flashcopy Manager

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FCM Win: Enhance support in clustered environments

The current configuration wizard in the MMC for the configuration of MSSQL, Exchange and NTFS volumes does not do any consideration if the application is running in a cluster. - FCM config wizard should configure the attributes: VSSALTSTAGINGDIR a...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Support VMware 6.5 and SVC v8.2 with FCM 4.1.6

Require support for FCM/TSM4VE 4.1.6/7.1.6 with VMware ESX 6.5 and SVC 8.2.x
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Support of FCM Oracle RAC Cloning into mutiple RAC Node Target Clusterr

Customer would like the ability to clone into a multiple node RAC cluster.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Allow Use of Single Oracle User for FCM for Oracle ASM

Customer has standardized on a single Oracle user for managing both ASM and the Oracle DB and wants to do the same with FCM.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Manager Support for Hyper-V

Deloitte Global is simply underwhelmed with IBM's software defined storage. Particularly with respect to the SVC (Spectrum Control), they find that we simply have not delivered enough integration with the Microsoft ecosystem over the past year. He...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

FCM for vmware support XIV cross-consistency group

XIV support snapshot of multiple volumes spanning multple XIVs simultaneously which named hyper-scale Consistency group.FCM for VMware support consistency group within single XIV.But FCM for VMware does NOT support hyper-scale Consistency Group to...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

FCM VMware: Provide Enahanced Repporting through FCM VMware CLI

Expand on fcmcli commands to produce a high-level backup summary report which includes:Backup job description (or name from GUI) Success/failure Date of backup Source datastores Source volumes Target volumes
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

FCM4UNIX: multiple occurrences of DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTEL_LEVEL incl. USE_AT clause in FCM profile required

Hi Tivoli :-) For incremental level Oracle (native) backups the DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement must be usable multiple times like the INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement for SAP/Oracle backups: INCREMENTAL_LEVELThis parameter is only for use ...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: VMware - Additional Question for Security Reasons

In case of restore a VM to its original location, the Plugin asks to overwrite it. This is great. We would like to see another additional question, if the VM still is running. E.g. "The VM you want to restore is still running. Do you really want t...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Provide support in FlashCopy Manager for refresh from pureScale to non-pureScale DB2

IBM FlashCopy manager needs to support new DB2 (10.5) function that allows pureScale-based DB2 systems to be restored to a non-pureScale-based system. Prior to 10.5, this was not possible, but now, based on an OFFLINE backup, it is possible to res...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration