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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

CSM SGC backup count reporting

Enhance CSM to provide comprehensive reporting and alerting for SGC backups, improving visibility into backup health and recoverability. This capability will help operations and support teams proactively monitor backup status and identify risks
7 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Safeguarded Copy Automation for Data Validation, IPL, Data Validation and Customer Notification

I would like to see automation added to CSM to move a SGC backup to Recovery volumes and then trigger an IPL for the Data Validation process that is vital to Ransomware protection. I also want CSM to monitor all of the started tasks from the IPL t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

MFA for CSM users

In the context of compliance to DORA/NIS2/... regulations I would be great to see CSM users authentication supported by MFA/2FA (like TOTP, with Duo Security, Microsoft Authenticator, IBM Verify,...).
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

CSM Heap Usage Monitoring

In mixed storage environments where a single CSM instance manages multiple sessions, especially with SGC, administrators do not have real-time visibility into current Java heap utilization. As a result, there is no reliable way to determine whethe...
9 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Email notifications for individual sessions

Currently email notifications only have the ability to send a broad range of information. We'd like the ability to set it so email notifications can be sent for set sessions so only the information for that session is sent out. i.e. the failed or ...
8 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Better representation of a "Migration" type session state in CSM

Migration type sessions in CSM are designed to run replications in async mode (Global Copy) only. When you start a migration type session, the replications start in the GC mode and the session is in the "Preparing" state and it has a status of "Wa...
22 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Add withdrawal of persistent practice FC relationship in GM or MM Session

With the more prevalent use of ESE for practice volumes, it would be beneficial to be able to stop the FC relationship to the practice set of volumes instead of having to schedule a flash to relieve space constraints.
23 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Submitted

Storage Nickname Column in the Storage Panel for DS8000

For larger clients that have numerous DS8000s (or for any storage systems, I guess), it would be very helpful if CSM users could specify a customizable "nickname" for each DS8000 which would show up as another column in the storage panel. It would...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Add a SYSLOG option for console logs

In addition to having the option to view the console logs in the user interface add an option to offload to a syslog server similar to hardware platforms (DS8, VTS, etc).
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Query for bitmap increment status

During a configuration change from H3->H1->H2 to H1->H2->H3, running the start H1->H2->H3 command may result in an unexpected full copy from H2 to H3 instead of a quick resync (for example, when z/OS systems were down after rolli...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Submitted

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