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Workspace Spectrum Protect Snapshot
Categories Flashcopy Manager
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 27, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

During configuration of Storage Protect snapshot, if /etc/inittab already have processes added, it should continue with a message, and not exit the setup with a failure.

When Storage Protect Snapshot for DB2 setup is run (setup_db2.sh), after setting the profile parameters for the backup and clones, a question is asked regarding inittab entries: 

"Do you want IBM Storage Protect Snapshot to create the inittab entries for you? [y|n] "

If one selects [y] here, and there are already entries of processes in /etc/inittab due to some reason, like a previous configuration, then the following error is seen: 

FMM1541E /etc/inittab was not updated because some of the processes have apparently been added. Please re-run the setup after calling the setup script with option '-a disable' if you want to change to a standard setup.
dtdb141s: fcmutil -f install_PS ... completed rc=2

Ideally, even if there are entries in the /etc/inittab, the configuration setup should continue with a messages saying "inittab entries already exist" and the daemons should be started.

Idea priority Medium

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