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Oracle Database Cloning improvements in FCM

Two enhancements are requested. 1) Currently FCM requires environment variable ORACLE_HOME to be set in the users environment right after logon. We request that FCM should read this value from /etc/oratab so that we can have a single user for mult...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 4 Planned for future release

Ability to create a cascade of clones that are independent from each other

If a database was cloned with FlashCopy Manager and this clone (D1) serves as source for another clone (D2) it is currently not possible to refresh D1 without deleting D2. For some scenarios this restriction has technical reasons. But by using ful...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

Support for Oracle DB on Windows

The feature we are requisting is full support for Oracle 10 and higher on Windows Server OS'es. We are right now using Oracle 10g on windows 2003 64bit and 11g on 2008 R2.The feature should contain scheduling, management of Flashcopy versions and ...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Email alerting

Alert when job fails as a supplement to reports.
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Thighten the relationship to Hardware based VSS providers

Whether FCM 3.1 is sending a VSS based snapshot to same disk or is making storagesystem based snapshots/clones is transparrent in FCM 3.1.Desicion for snapshot or clone cannot be done thru FCM 3.1 UI.
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

FCM: Possibility to create FULL FC on XIV

If FlashCopy Manager is used in conjunction with XIV, then FlashCopy Manager only is able to create Space Efficient Snapshots. Unfortunately also, if FlashCopy Manager creates Clone Systems. Especially for Clones or System Copies it is important t...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

fcmcli to display date/time of backup

1. FCM for custom apps to display the date/time the flash backup was taken when using fcmcli. 2. Allow TSM offloaded backups to run under root so all files are backed up (as the app ID doesnt always have ability to backup all files) and to do incr...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Restart Option for setup scripts

Currently, two steps are necessary to restart the FCM daemons. E.g. for Sap/Oracle: setup_ora.sh -a stop -d <instance> andsetup_ora.sh -a start -d <instance> This RFE requests this:setup_ora.sh -a restart -d <instance>
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Option to influence VG naming for cloning

If FCM creates a clone system, then on the clone system gets default namings for Volume Group Names, Volume Group IDs and Logical Volumes Names. Usually companies have naming convention for these three values. Therefore an option (even if it incre...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Check DB2 File systems are not 'Busy' before a DB2 flashcopy restore proceeds

During our testing the following weakness was identified in the way FCM performs a DB2 snapshot restore. 1. All Filesystems are not checked to determine if any are 'busy' before FCM starts to perform unmount/removes. - This results in some DB2 fil...
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

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