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Flashcopy Manager

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FCM support for PowerLinux.

Currently Flashcopy Manager is only support on Linux x86_64 platforms.We would like to see support for PowerLinux setups.
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Centralized reporting for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

We would like to request a centralized reporting facility for Tivoli FlashCopy Manager, specifically FlashCopy Manager for Exchange 2010 first, if possible (although all applications managed by FCM would benefit). This reporting facility would be ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Provide Volume Label Information when querying list of available components to backup for File System And Custom App Support.

FCM 3.2 Beta Customer would like the ability to view the Volume/ Mount Point label along with the drive/mount point name when querying the list of available components to backup for the Flash Copy Manager For Windows File System and Custom Applica...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Central Management GUI

The customer which are using FCM require a central management GUI to manage all FCM environments. In addition, it would be a good idea to integrate the gui with TSM. Also it is interesting because FCM under UNIX platforms don't have any graphical ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

FCM Windows - Allow option to skip import/mask if integrity check is not needed

With FlashCopy Manager for Windows, when "just in time" imports are used, offer the option not to import the snapshot to the production machine, unless necessary. For example, if we are not doing an Exchange integrity check and we are not running ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM Windows - support managment of snapshot XIV mirrors

Fairfax County would like FlashCopy Manager (FCM) in Windows to support management of XIV mirrored snapshots. They would also like to be able to set different policies for the XIV mirrored snapshots, if possible. They would like FCM to handle this...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Request for support for Tivoli Flash Copy Manager 2.2 support for Veritas File System on AIX 6.1

We would like to request that Tivoli Flash Copy Manager to be supported with Veritas File System with the following components: 1. ERMS and BW SAP systems running on Oracle 10g R2 DB2. Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 and Veritas File System. 3. Server ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

response file for FCM silent setup

Possibility to create a response file for the FCM setup script setup_*.sh and to use it for silent setup on other FCM installations.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM Win: Enhance Altering

Currently (v3.1) FCM only reports its own error messages to the MMC. This is hard to monitor in an enterprise environment. The user should be informed about any aborted process. So, this enhancement is to add also error reports to e.g.:- SCOM (Sys...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 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...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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