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Flashcopy Manager

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    FCM VMware: Provide ability to specify multiple values of MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV

    We need to ability to customize MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV. We are limited to only one MAX_VERSIONS parm with XIV.
    over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

    Flash Copy Manager support for Solaris 11

    Flash Copy Manager is supported for Solaris 10.x, but not for Solaris 11.x
    over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Flashcopy Manager support for MS Sharepoint

    We are asking to support MS Sharepoint with IBM FlashCopy Manager.
    over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Ability to automatically delete FCM backups after offloaded to a TSM Server

    It will be great if we had a way to automatically delete fcm storage backups after the data are offloaded to a TSM server
    over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

    include OLOG/MLOG-DGs into Backup Process

    in addition of processing only Oracle Data-DG also process OLOG/MLOG-DGs (mount/unmount these DGs at Backupserver for RMAN processing)
    over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

    API for FlashCopy Manager

    At the moment, the only way to interact with FCM is by using the command line, and parse output in case we need to automate any operations - which is pretty much unusable in terms of automation. We need an API for the FlashCopy Manager! The API sh...
    over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Record BackupID/CloneID in the log/trace filenames

    At the moment, it is pretty much impossible to make a unambiguous connection between a certain operation (backup or clone) and it's logs/trace files, let alone automate this process (backup failed -> send me the afferent log files via email). W...
    over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    FCM Oracle: Possibility to let RMAN control FCM Backups (and to see them in OEM)

    Today with FCM 4.1, FCM's disk only backups cannot be seen in RMAN (Oracles Standard Backup Interface).This RFE is to implement a new interface in order to see FCM Backups in RMAN and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
    over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Flashcopy Manager with AIX LVM and SVC Stretched Cluster Support

    HI, today ther is FCM and AIX LVM Support for mirrored volumes if there are two disk subsystems. The problem with SVC stretched cluster design (two locations) is that there is only one subsystem and i can`t configure the toleration and deletion of...
    over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

    Tivoli Flashcopy Manager support for DS8K Space Efficient Flashcopy

    Client is in a Banking industry and a large customer of TSM and DS8K deployed site.( with several hundred TBs )The bank wishes to consider using FCM with Oracle / DB on AIX / Solaris Platform with DS8K SE Flashcopy Currently, FCM does not support ...
    almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

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