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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Spectrum Protect Snapshot
Categories Flashcopy Manager
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 3, 2013

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FCM: Option to only delete clone mappings

FlashCopy Manager creates a system copy by performing a FlashCopy in the Storage System. This implies that the Storage System (like SVC) creates a copy relation between a source and target LUN.
Some customers require to remove this copy relation to have a 100% independent clone. Unfortunately "fcmcli - f delete_clone" not only deletes the copy relation but the data itself as well. Therefore a function is required only to delete the copy relation like e.g. "fcmcli -f release_clone".

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 10, 2013

    Thank you for submitting the requirement. This is planned for 4Q 2013, and For FlashCopy Cloning on SVC with FLASHCOPY_TYPE COPY we will always set the consistency group and mappings up in a way that they get automatically deleted after the copy process has finished. If the customer chooses FLASHCOPY_TYPE INCR or NOCOPY the FC relationships will stay in place until the clone gets deleted.

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