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Spectrum Protect Snapshot

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Restrict FCM to manage the own source and target volumes (multi tenancy)

Reference: Technical Exchange call with Mr. Uhl, Munz, Calvus 7/18/2013In a shared SAN-enviroment, security is very important for a service provider with multiple customers. We want to use FCM running on different operating systems in combination ...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: Support disk partitions on Linux

The customer requires support for disk partitions on Linux. Statement 2.0.10 of the FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux prerequisites checklist explicitly excludes this support.
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM VMware: Provide ability to specify multiple values of MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV

We need to ability to customize MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV. We are limited to only one MAX_VERSIONS parm with XIV.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

FCM Oracle: Possibility to let RMAN control FCM Backups (and to see them in OEM)

Today with FCM 4.1, FCM's disk only backups cannot be seen in RMAN (Oracles Standard Backup Interface).This RFE is to implement a new interface in order to see FCM Backups in RMAN and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: User Interface

- Unified GUI for Unix/Linux/VMware/Windows- Show where (FCM, and/or TSM) the backups are and which backp-version of which application exist- Same look and feel like the TPC 5.1 WebGUI- WebGUI- Central interface for all FCM flavours- Optional Inte...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM: ZFS Support for Solaris

THE main volume manager for clustered systems is zfs. Without this support FCM for Solaris only can be used in a very small amounts of Solaris systems.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

FCM: Support for Lotus Domino

Currently FlashCopy Manager supports the following applications: SAP, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, MS Exchange. Non of the current platforms where the FlashCopy Manager is being shipped delivers a support for Lotus Domino. Also, it might be considered tha...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

SVCDTA volumes with same Preferred Node As source

We are creating snapshot on Flashsytem 7200 using a SVCDTA configuration;volumes are created automatically but not on the same preferred node as the source volume. According IBM to IBM best practices (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/flashcopy-co...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

SVCDTA DB2 cancel restore

When restore of DB2 is executed, there is no possibility to cancel restore and try with another one, until restore is completed in background.We use NOCOPY option for backup. FMM19183E IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot adapter for the SAN Volume Contr...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Multiple databases managed by a single instance

Known Issues and Limitations Specific to the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2 Component. If there are multiple databases managed by a single instance, only one of these databases can be protected by IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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