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Spectrum Protect Snapshot

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    TFCM with Oracle ASM single user environment

    Oracle supports the use of a single user setup to manage both the database instance and the ASM services. As such the client has standardized on a single user in it's Oracle ASM environment. TFCM requires both an Oracle instance user for the datab...
    almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under 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)
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    FlashCopy Manager Support for Hyper-V

    Deloitte Global is simply underwhelmed with IBM's software defined storage. Particularly with respect to the SVC (Spectrum Control), they find that we simply have not delivered enough integration with the Microsoft ecosystem over the past year. He...
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 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...
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    FCM for vmware support XIV cross-consistency group

    XIV support snapshot of multiple volumes spanning multple XIVs simultaneously which named hyper-scale Consistency group.FCM for VMware support consistency group within single XIV.But FCM for VMware does NOT support hyper-scale Consistency Group to...
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

    Allow vendors to develop snapshot provider for *nix Spectrum Protect Snapshot

    Allow PaaS providers to exploit Spectrum Protect Snapshot by providing a device adapter to interface SPS with with their platform's proprietary storage layer.
    over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    FCM VMware: Provide Enahanced Repporting through FCM VMware CLI

    Expand on fcmcli commands to produce a high-level backup summary report which includes:Backup job description (or name from GUI) Success/failure Date of backup Source datastores Source volumes Target volumes
    about 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

    Tivoli Flash Copy Manager for Solaris 10 HA with native Oracle11g DB

    Hi We need help on this.SETUP / ENVIRONMENT:Customer had SVC configured as split cluster with code 7.0.2.1 and with XIV GEN3 as the backend storage. Customer had 3 nodes Solaris machine with Solaris 10 Cluster and the Database is Oracle 11g ( nati...
    almost 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    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.
    about 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

    FCM4UNIX: multiple occurrences of DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTEL_LEVEL incl. USE_AT clause in FCM profile required

    Hi Tivoli :-) For incremental level Oracle (native) backups the DATABASE_BACKUP_INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement must be usable multiple times like the INCREMENTAL_LEVEL statement for SAP/Oracle backups: INCREMENTAL_LEVELThis parameter is only for use ...
    about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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