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FCM Exchange: FlashCopy volume direct mount also for mailbox restore

Customer needs direct FlashCopy volume mount also for individual restores (single DB-restore, mailbox restore, mailbox browser) in FCM for Exchange.It's possible at the moment with "instant restore" for the whole Exchange DB.For single item restor...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

FCM4Unix: Oracle ASM on Linux - ASM Disks on Disk Partitions

FCM should support ASM Disks on disk partitions. The Preinstallation Checklist states "For Oracle ASM diskgroups are created on entire disks. (Setups on disk partitions are not supported.)" FCM will not work with ASM Disks on disk partitons (other...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

FCM Cloning: Lift multiple user limitation for Oracle

For the cloning process of FlashCopy Manager (FCM), it requires two users at the target clone system. One user to recover the cloned database (old sid) and one user to start it with the new sid. Each user runs with his own dedicated $ORACLE_SID. T...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Delivered

Tivoli FCM for VMware

using FCM 3.2.0 We are an SAP shop which on a frequent basis refreshes PRD to QAS environments. We wanted to use FCM to perform this landscape "refresh" . One of the requirements though is to preserve the "TARGET" environment (unmount FS and renam...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Request that FCM functionality be enhanced to support nested mount points that are stored on more than one volume group.

We request that FCM functionality be enhanced to support nested mount points that are stored on more than one volume group. There is no indication in the FCM error message to indicate why this functionality is not in FCM. The error message simply ...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

FCM support for Oracle DataGuard

The customer would like to use FCM with Oracle DataGuard to take point in time copies of Oracle DataGuard (source or target volumes).
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Delivered

FCM: Clone Oracle DB on ASM.

Many Oracle installations are running over ASM. The possibility to do a clone of this databases is necessary.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Add DEDUP_DEVICE option to DB2 (Offload) backup to TSM

The Offlload backup of a snapshot to TSM doesn't support the DB2 Backup command option of DEDUP_DEVICE, which optimises de-duplication of the backup images and significantly reduces backup storage.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 4 Delivered

FlashCopy Manager should support also NetApp for Flash copies under Unix

The FlashCopy Manager supports currently only the IBM subsystems DS8000, SVC, V7000 and XIV. Many customers are using NetApp storage because of their comprehensive snapshot and replication functionality. These customers want to use TSM as the Unif...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 5 Delivered

Change request of task priority.

On behalf of customer, IBM account team write,-Change task priority of backup tasks and reconcile task.Based on current design, reconcile and backup(snapshot) can not run parallel.During backing up, if the reconcile task starts backup task gets de...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

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