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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 14, 2018

Include FlashCopy information in SAN Volume Controller/Storwize system dumps

Storwize and SAN Volume Controller snaps are useful, self-enclosed files used by IBM for diagnostics and support. Additionally, these files can be used for reconstruction and migration by IBM Business Partner, Value-Added Resellers, System Integrators, and Cloud Providers to reconstruct an existing or failed system.

While system dumps currently include a great deal of information, customers running FlashCopy will not be able to easily recover and recreate FlashCopy information from a dump. This information is not currently included in a dump.

My request would be to include FlashCopy information about mappings and consistency groups (including the details) within a SAN Volume Controller and Storwize dump.

The additional commands that would need to be added to the dump are: lsfcmap (including details for each map), and lsfcconsistgrp (including details for each consistency group)

Idea priority Low