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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...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM Win: Hint for possible outdated versions of BA and TDP Client

FCM installs the BA Client and the TDPs under the covers which are packaged within the FCM installation package. These versions can be outdated. The MMC config wizard should print a hint at a certain point in time that the BA and TDP version might...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 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.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 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.
about 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...
over 8 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...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Snapshot Support for Linux One on A9000

We'd require support for Flashcopy Manager support for DB2 on LinuxOne so that this can be governed via Copy Data Manager.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Restore using FCM/SPS

Client wants to be able to restore snapshots on the local side with replication still in progress. Customer believes SPS should be able to break replication on a local restore and then restart replication after the restore completes. Case #: TS002...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 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
over 9 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 ...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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