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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.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 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>
over 13 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.
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Use flashcopy manager for oracle with lower case chars in db_name

Create a clone from an oracle native database when oracle db_name contains lower case charssee APAR IC76882
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Unix/Linux: Support for csh Shell

Currently FCM supports ksh and bash as Unix/Linux shell. Some customers standardized the csh shell in their environment due to SAP history. Unfortunately some scripts which perform recovery on the clone system (during FCM cloning) fail if the data...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

FCM Windows - support managment of snapshot XIV mirrors

Fairfax County would like FlashCopy Manager (FCM) in Windows to support management of XIV mirrored snapshots. They would also like to be able to set different policies for the XIV mirrored snapshots, if possible. They would like FCM to handle this...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Use FlashCopyManager with a DB2 single partition DB with multiple containers

FCM must be able to manage DB2 configured in a single partition DB with multiple containers (configuration supported by DB2)
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

FCM Windows - Allow option to skip import/mask if integrity check is not needed

With FlashCopy Manager for Windows, when "just in time" imports are used, offer the option not to import the snapshot to the production machine, unless necessary. For example, if we are not doing an Exchange integrity check and we are not running ...
over 12 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...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

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 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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