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FCM4Unix: Oracle ASM "asm_diskstring" to be used is not documented

The FCM4Unix documentation does not state that FCM requires the usage of asm_diskstring=ORCL:* while adding ASMlib Disks to disk groups and during disk discovery. If ORCL:* is not used or the asm_diskstring contains other filters ASMlib disks migh...
almost 11 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

Do a DB2 offload backup to TSM with the compress option

Actually the FlashCopy Manager offloads the DB2 backups to TSM in a non compressed mode. With a new option backups could be offloaded in a compressed mode to TSM. (For the offload part only)
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 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

Flash Copies disappearing - now known to be a user error as well as VSS failover/resets and volumes not available for copy

Based on the PMR and Critsit (AH4742) results a bug was found, we need to get a resolution and get it to the customer right away. We are requesting support for clustered VSS servers in a FCM solution
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 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

Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL)

Support for Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL). OEL is based on RHEL but was extended with a specific modified Kernel by Oracle. As also the native RHEL Kernel is included in OEL and FCM is supported for RHEL, it should be supported for OEL, too. Oracl...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 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

FCM: File-level backups from a VSS offload mount of file system backups

Currently FlashCopy Manager v3.1 does have this functionality with NTFS volumes:- create a VSS snapshot of a NTFS volume on host A- mount this VSS snapshot as a new drive letter on host A- unmount this VSS snapshot on host A. This RFE is about the...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

Extended Scheduler capabilities

Not possible to create advanced schedules.My customer has made schedules which make backups every two hours. But they would like the possibility to exclude certain weekdays like saturdays and sundays.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

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