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Status Delivered
Categories Flashcopy Manager
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 31, 2013

Do a DB2 offload backup to TSM with the compress option

Actually the FlashCopy Manager offloads the DB2 backups to TSM in a non compressed mode.
With a new option backups could be offloaded in a compressed mode to TSM. (For the offload part only)

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager

  • Guest
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    Apr 16, 2014

    Thank you for submitting this request. This has been delivered in Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager 4.1 using the DB2_OPTIONS COMPRESS option. Thank you for your continued support in moving our products forward.