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My ideas: Spectrum Protect Snapshot

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    Support multiple INCR Flash Copy backups with DS8000 storage

    Currently FlashCopy Manager supports only one Incremental FlashCopy backup can be performed in a DS8000 environment. With DS8000 Licensed Internal Code (LIC) 7.7.40 multiple incremental FlashCopy relationships became available. A single volume can...
    over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

    SVCDTA volumes with same Preferred Node As source

    We are creating snapshot on Flashsytem 7200 using a SVCDTA configuration;volumes are created automatically but not on the same preferred node as the source volume. According IBM to IBM best practices (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/flashcopy-co...
    almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 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 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

    FlashCopy Manager VMware In-Guest Support

    VMWare In-Guest Support for FCM. Install, handle and use FCM in virtual machines which are attached to storage subsystems (SVC, ...) with full functionality as on physical machines.
    over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    SVCDTA DB2 cancel restore

    When restore of DB2 is executed, there is no possibility to cancel restore and try with another one, until restore is completed in background.We use NOCOPY option for backup. FMM19183E IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot adapter for the SAN Volume Contr...
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Multiple databases managed by a single instance

    Known Issues and Limitations Specific to the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2 Component. If there are multiple databases managed by a single instance, only one of these databases can be protected by IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot.
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Support for Domino Protect for Mail (TDP) for Ubuntu

    Domino is supported on a range of Linux operating-systems. But this requires also backup solutions to be available for those Linux platforms. Domino on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is getting more and more attraction and should be supported b TDP.
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Under review

    FCM for VMware: Support for duplicate UUIDs

    In Vmware environments it is a common procedure to clone a VM. After this is done, the new VM gets the same UUID as the VM where it was cloned from. A post process is necessary in order to give the cloned VM a new UUID. If this post process is not...
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    FCM for VMware: GUI field "backup end time" should be optional

    When a new backup schedule is created, the GUI forces the user to enter a backup end time. These fields should be optional because some clients want the schedule to run forever.
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Manually provide Product and LUN-Identifiers for sd*-disks

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot (SPS) identifies the available disks by issuing a series of low-level Linux commands which deliver the LUN-ID and Product-ID of these devices. Among others:- dmsetup- searching /sys/block/sd*/dev- Requesting SCSI pages 0x...
    over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

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