Boris,

There is a special TSM product to manage all of this for you.
It is called TSM for Advanced Copy Services. Take a look at this:


http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr-advanced-copy-services/

Also... there is a Redbook to help here as well:


http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg247474.html?Open

Thanks,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 05/31/2007
05:59:15 AM:

> Hello list members,
>
> in the near future it's planned backing up our SAP DB2 Databases
> (AIX-Systems / DB2 Volumes resides on a Shark System) via
> "Flashcopy" to TSM Server. I've absolute no knowlege of this issue.
>
> Today we are backing up the database via SAN to the TSM Server
> without a TDP. We only use a script which calls the command "db2
> backup db xyz online use TSM".
>
> What do we need for using/implementing FlashCopy for our DB2
> Databases? Is a TDP required or is it optional? Is there some
> documentation for implementing FlashCopy? (I've no knowlege of the
> Shark - is this required for TSM Administrators? - Today only our
> UNIX colleagues administrate the Shark environment)
>
> Any help / infors about this issue are appreciate.
>
> With kind regards,
> _______________________________
>
> Boris Herrmann