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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...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Oracle on AIX support for Oracle 19c multi-tenant databases

The request is for Spectrum Protect Snapshot support for Oracle 19c multitenant (pluggable) databases.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Management to support BtrFS for file system snaps

While on a SuSE OS LPAR the file system snapshot management is working for XFS, however the protection is not available for BtrFS (by default used for SuSE OS)
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future 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...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 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...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Break message on FlashCopy step

On the Control server, the option :Target LPAR Device Setup define the Backup device description and the Backup device serial number.If one off this option is bad, the FlashCopy backup is break, one message on the target server stop the backup. On...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Copy Data Management Support for IRIS 2020

Dear IBMer/Catalogic, I hope everything is well. Urgent request. US Hospital requesting IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management to support EPIC IRIS 2020 on AIX asap. WSC has EPIC IRIS 2020 up and running ready for testing. Requesting Catalogic developm...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future 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...
almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 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 ...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 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...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

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