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Spectrum Protect Snapshot

Tivoli Flashcopy Manager support for DS8K Space Efficient Flashcopy

Client is in a Banking industry and a large customer of TSM and DS8K deployed site.( with several hundred TBs )The bank wishes to consider using FCM with Oracle / DB on AIX / Solaris Platform with DS8K SE Flashcopy Currently, FCM does not support ...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager Not under consideration

Restore of Archive-Mailbox from Exchange via Flash Copy Manager

Swiss National Bank is not satisfied with the answer we got for PMR 05632,031,848. We were referred to Technote 1598343 ( http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21598343 ) which states that TDP Exchange / FlashCopy Manager does not suppo...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots 4.1.6 support VMware 6.5

The customer HDI Seguros have IBM FlashSystem 7200 and IBM Spectrum control. They need create snapshots with an schedule with retentions. So, they need to use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots for this Use case. They Have VMware 6.5 and Oracle DB.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality Not under consideration

Support DB2 systems running on GPFS with FCM

DB2 supports build and operation on GPFS filesystems. Currently FCM does not support DB2 on GPFS (except for pureScale). Unilever would like a single filesystem pattern across pureScale and non-pureScale - based on GPFS. This implies an ability to...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality Not under consideration

Application Aware VMWare Flash Copy Manager

Flash copy manager needs to be application aware for database engines running on Windows in a VMWare environment. In order of importance Microsoft SQL Server, IBM UDB/LUW, Oracle, My SQL. The current ability of flash copy manager requires the data...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager Not under consideration

Specific SVC User Group for FCM Actions

For the use of FCM with SVC, a specific SVC user is needed which has to be part of a specific group. Currently, the user must be member of the group "Administrator". As this group has a very high set of critical rights, it would be better to have ...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality Planned for future release

Utilize FlashCopy Manager to do ad-hoc clones from the backup target volumes to eliminate impact on production systems

Customers are asking for the ability to clone their database applications (Oracle, ERP, etc..) and not impact the production system on an ad-hoc basis. They want to be able to 'clone on demand' during the day and the existing process causes a shor...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager Not under consideration

OPCenter server can access the internet through a HTTP proxy

IBM Ticket : TS007157717 Hello, I would like to contact you beacause I am simply looking for an answer to a question.I'm looking to implement the auto-deploy feature for a client. The OPCenter server can access the internet through a network proxy...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality Future consideration

FCM support for PowerLinux.

Currently Flashcopy Manager is only support on Linux x86_64 platforms.We would like to see support for PowerLinux setups.
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager Not under consideration

Decomission Enhancements

We have been talking to multiple large clients regarding decommission feature.Decomission Node/VM is a great utility but it doesn't fully support all customers needs in it's current form. Decomission Node/VM should support the following options fr...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality Not under consideration

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