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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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Allow MONITOR role to 'view' all (or most) items and configurations in CSM

Currently the MONITOR role in CSM does not allow access to things like port pairing csv or authentication settings and even the scheduled tasks. As a result we always need an ID with ADMINISTRATIVE access. Per our firm's security standards the adm...
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Associate Multiple Sysplexes on different type of sessions

Allow to associate multiple sysplexes to one session to support features as Hyperswap for SAS and shared volumes. As implemented in CSM 6.3.10 for 4 sites replication enhanced sessions we would like to be able to associate multiple sysplexes to a ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Improve zOS host IP connection loss detection and failover behavior

There have been incidents in the field showing the current design of CSM z/OS host IP connection loss detection and failover to redundant active host connection is significantly delayed to 15-20 minutes. This may happen especially when the connect...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Enhanced CSM Notification with priority and persistence functionality

Adding the ability to make an alert persistent by selection would allow for some level of prioritization for critical type alerts versus non critical or informational type alerts. Currently the alerts are one shot. The alerts are not redriven at a...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Improve the Logical Path Change alert to be more specific.

Currently, when a connection is temporarily dropped, we receive an email alert (like the one shown below) to notify us that a path has gone down. In the DS8K log, we can see when the path goes down, & when comes back up, but the alerts show th...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Introduce COPYONCE functionality for CSM Global Mirror devices, similar to that within GDPS

I am writing to submit a request for enhancement to the Copy Services Manager (CSM) software. We believe that the addition of COPYONCE functionality, similar to that within GDPS, to CSM would greatly simplify the management of Copysets. Specifical...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

installCSMDSCLI.sh env var CSM_ProductionRoot split into 2 vars

In zOS CSM DSCLI, one must run the SAMPLIB(IWNINST2) job to actually install the product via script installCSMDSCLI.sh. The script requires 3 environment variables to be set:CSM_InstallRootCSM_ProductionRootCSM_JAVA_DIR The CSM_ProductionRoot path...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Show a User-Defined Instance name at the top of every CSM GUI page

Many clients have multiple CSM instances in their environment for Active and Standby servers plus multiple instances of servers for different workloads or different storage systems. It can get confusing when an admin needs to manage systems runnin...
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Check and Remove existing IR bitmap when Preparing for Secondary Migration to avoid full copy during resync to new secondary

The CSM secondary migration feature uses the IR bitmap on the primary system to perform an incremental resync to a new secondary system. Actually, when CSM perform the Prepare for Secondary Migration step, it will request the DS8000 to set the IR ...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Add sender email address to Alert Notifications screen

Currently the CSM GUI configuration for Alert Notifications asks for the "Reply-to-address". This is not the same as the sender address but this subtle difference is easily missed (and if noticed there is no obvious way to specify the sender addre...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

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