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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.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

DB2 Snapshot Support for Linux One on A9000

We'd require support for Flashcopy Manager support for DB2 on LinuxOne so that this can be governed via Copy Data Manager.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Restore using FCM/SPS

Client wants to be able to restore snapshots on the local side with replication still in progress. Customer believes SPS should be able to break replication on a local restore and then restart replication after the restore completes. Case #: TS002...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Improve Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Unix to leverage Oracle BCT for offloaded tape backups

Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle supports mounting a FlashCopy target set to a backup server (auxiliary server) and to perform rman incremental level 1 offloads to a Spectrum Protect server from there. In order to identify the changed blocks i...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) - SP for VE support

My customer has deployed a new vCenter on Amazon Web Services, using VMWare on Cloud (VMC) as hypervisor. They are already migrating onpremise production machines to this environment, but even following KB https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/10...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Manager - enable higher values for SVC_COPY_RATE

Please increase possible values for parameter SVC_COPY_RATE to numbers higher than 100.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

Support VMware 6.5 and SVC v8.2 with FCM 4.1.6

Require support for FCM/TSM4VE 4.1.6/7.1.6 with VMware ESX 6.5 and SVC 8.2.x
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

LVM mirror support within a single storage system, also without backup server.

We have a clustered pair of V7000 Gen3's which I would like to use with SPS for DB2 database snapshots. SPS does not currently support either hyperswap volumes, or LVM mirroring of two volumes on the same storage system (copies of which would resi...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Hyperswap support for Spectrum Protect Snapshot

We have a clustered pair of V7000 Gen3's which I would like to use with SPS for DB2 database snapshots. SPS does not currently support either hyperswap volumes, or LVM mirroring of two volumes on the same storage system (copies of which would resi...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Currency Support for spectrum protect for Snapshot

We missing the Support of Spectrum Protect for Snapshot on rhel7.6 x86_64 Systems. Today the prereq checker complain that only 7.5 are supported. We use the snapshot function for db2 here.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Planned for future release