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Spectrum Protect Snapshot

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SPS Support for A9000 Multisite Configuration

Client is using a multi-site configuration in their A9000's where they are hyperswapped in prod and async replicating to DR. They need support for this configuration within Spectrum Protect Snapshot for snapshot management.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Add a log file to show the CLI command that were done from the GUI

Create a log file that will show each GUI command (backup, attach, detach, restore) how it is translated into a CLI command (similar to what XIV has).It should only show the CLI commands (and maybe the final status of success / fail), nothing else.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Planned for future release

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
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

FCM for Vmware to support Vmware Site Recovery Manager sites

FCM for Vmware to support customer which also use vmware Site Recovery Manager.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

FCM for tdpsql can't work with multiple dsm.opt files

There is no command-line option nor any other option/possibility to tell FCM for tdpsql (6.4.0.0) to use the settings from a specific dsm.opt. In previous versions this was possible using the deprecated tdpsql.exe GUI, however by deprecating this ...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Customizing FCM TDP MSSQL Configuration files

Please include possibility for customzing locations of TDP for MSSQL configuration files (.cfg + .opt) at MMC console of FileCopyManager. For example as on TSM Baclient with environment variables.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

Tivoli FCM individual mail box restore problem

restore the mail box with it's locale rather then change the locale setting of the exchange server everytime.
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

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

FCM Win: Support for Oracle Database

Currently FlashCopy Manager support MSSQL Server and MS Exchange on Windows, but no Oracle Databases. Also: Support for SAP BR'Tools must be considered if Oracle is used in conjunction with SAP.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Planned for future release

Tivoli Flash Copy - FCM VM - Backup fails / Snapshot failure

After using FlashCopy Manager for VMWare we realized that the entire backup operation is cancelled (rolled back) as soon as a certain VM could not be quiesced.We request that the backup operation should continue so that the rest of the VMs are bac...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release