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IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager Support for Oracle-RAC on AIX with GPFS

Support for Oracle-RAC on AIX GPFS Filesystem,with GPFS Mirroring over 2 Metro-Mirrored SVC or the possibility to backout one SVC
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

FCP for DB2 support for PPC Linux

At this time, FCM for DB2 is only available on linux x86_64 and we would like it to be supported on PPC linux.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM to support Veritas Filesystems

Main requirement is the support of Veritas file-systems, and although there is a solution, it will add an extra level of complexity that is undesired. TSM Dev are aware and Chris Zaremba is involved.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Unix/Linux Netapp NFS support for DB2/Oracle/SAP

FCM v3.2 for Unix/Linux supports Netapp Storage via FC or iSCSI, but not NFS. This RFE is to support nfs as well.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

Application Aware VMWare Flash Copy Manager

Flash copy manager needs to be application aware for database engines running on Windows in a VMWare environment. In order of importance Microsoft SQL Server, IBM UDB/LUW, Oracle, My SQL. The current ability of flash copy manager requires the data...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Specific SVC User Group for FCM Actions

For the use of FCM with SVC, a specific SVC user is needed which has to be part of a specific group. Currently, the user must be member of the group "Administrator". As this group has a very high set of critical rights, it would be better to have ...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

IBM FlashCopy Manager support for Solaris 10 x86

Currently FlashCopy manager is only supported on Solaris 10 (Sparc) and not Solaris 10 x86. There are many environments out there that run Oracle databases on Solaris 10 x86 for cost savings reasons (cheaper then buying Sparc hardware) and with Fl...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Utilize FlashCopy Manager to do ad-hoc clones from the backup target volumes to eliminate impact on production systems

Customers are asking for the ability to clone their database applications (Oracle, ERP, etc..) and not impact the production system on an ad-hoc basis. They want to be able to 'clone on demand' during the day and the existing process causes a shor...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

FCM: Simplify complexity of mounting

To mount a FlashCopy is more complex than expected, because it is not clear under which conditions which arguments must be used in order to mount a FlashCopy. Normally, FCM mounts the latest FlashCopy Backup to the Backup System with this command:...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Pre-Requisites Check Script

In order to consider and check all points on the pre-requisite checklist for FCM on Unix, Linux a checking utility would ease the work a lot. Currently, the checklist is very complex and not all of the points are directly clear. Some points refer ...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

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