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Flashcopy Manager

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Manually provide Product and LUN-Identifiers for sd*-disks

Spectrum Protect Snapshot (SPS) identifies the available disks by issuing a series of low-level Linux commands which deliver the LUN-ID and Product-ID of these devices. Among others:- dmsetup- searching /sys/block/sd*/dev- Requesting SCSI pages 0x...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Snapshot Support for Linux One on A9000

We'd require support for Flashcopy Manager support for DB2 on LinuxOne so that this can be governed via Copy Data Manager.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Flashcopy Restore using FCM/SPS

Client wants to be able to restore snapshots on the local side with replication still in progress. Customer believes SPS should be able to break replication on a local restore and then restart replication after the restore completes. Case #: TS002...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Support VMware 6.5 and SVC v8.2 with FCM 4.1.6

Require support for FCM/TSM4VE 4.1.6/7.1.6 with VMware ESX 6.5 and SVC 8.2.x
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot support multiple DB2 databases within a single instance

FEPOC owns Flashcopy Manager for DB2 and has performed a Proof of Concept (POC) and identified changes required to the current DB2 environment in order to implement flashcopy. A problem was identified in the POC based on CCTI's unique architecture...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FCM) support for DB2 PureScale (restore deprecated support)

This request is to restore support for DB2 PureScale snapshots in Spectrum Protect Snapshot for DB2 V8.1 onward. The client has a need to utilize fully supported Spectrum Protect (formerly FCM) snapshots for HA/DR in a supported DB2 PureScale envi...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

Oracle rman cumulative incremental backups for native oracle installation

Please check PMR 27612,820,820 there is everything what is needed thanks
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

SVCDTA FlashCopy Target must be mirrored, if source volumes are mirrored

We have an open Complaint AK2872.To solve this complaint we have to migrate to SVCDTA in FlashCopy Manager.Wwe get the problem adressed in the PMR for our critical luns..
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Add option to not suspend oracle database during flashcopy

Would like the option to only place tables in backup mode and not suspend the database when working with Oracle RAC + ASM source.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

Modification of behavior of Flashcopy status change

We are using Flashcopy for DB2 under AIX and we perform tape backup from time to time. If you have the status backup_pending for the latest flasdhcopy and if the next flashcopy fails because of any reason then you do not have any flashcopy that co...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration