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Support for Linux on IBM z Systems

Support for Linux on IBM z Systems is needed for DB2 ACS invoking IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot - formerly IBMTivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Manager & GLVM

In some installed server P systems we manage as outsourcer we need to copy storage data between two different datacenters (source in Italy, target in France; different storage type).The only way to manage copy is GLVMSome of the source systems hav...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Manager 4.1.6 for Windows does not cleanup volumes in registry after successfull snapshot

On Windows 2008 R2 SP1, with SQL 2012 SP4. When using Flashcopy manager 4.1.6 to take snapshots to an v7000 storwize of the databases with IBM hardware provider 4.15. using BA client 7.1.8.2 and TDP 7.1.6.0.Every snapshot made is filling up the wi...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

FCM: User Interface

- Unified GUI for Unix/Linux/VMware/Windows- Show where (FCM, and/or TSM) the backups are and which backp-version of which application exist- Same look and feel like the TPC 5.1 WebGUI- WebGUI- Central interface for all FCM flavours- Optional Inte...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: ZFS Support for Solaris

THE main volume manager for clustered systems is zfs. Without this support FCM for Solaris only can be used in a very small amounts of Solaris systems.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 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 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Support for Lotus Domino

Currently FlashCopy Manager supports the following applications: SAP, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, MS Exchange. Non of the current platforms where the FlashCopy Manager is being shipped delivers a support for Lotus Domino. Also, it might be considered tha...
about 13 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 ...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Restore of Archive-Mailbox from Exchange via Flash Copy Manager

Swiss National Bank is not satisfied with the answer we got for PMR 05632,031,848. We were referred to Technote 1598343 ( http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21598343 ) which states that TDP Exchange / FlashCopy Manager does not suppo...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Decomission Enhancements

We have been talking to multiple large clients regarding decommission feature.Decomission Node/VM is a great utility but it doesn't fully support all customers needs in it's current form. Decomission Node/VM should support the following options fr...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

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