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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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    Automated ODD generation in CSM, along with periodic cleanup based on a retention policy to prevent storage overrun

    Background: I recently met with the Storage Infrastructure Head of a large Indian bank. During the discussion, the customer specifically asked whether DS8000 supports automatic ODD generation based on predefined thresholds or triggers at the time ...
    16 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Safeguarded Snapshots in IBM Copy Services Manager for SV Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability

    Please add native support in IBM Copy Services Manager to create safeguarded snapshots for Storage Virtualize Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability. Thank you for considering this enhancement! Virgil Balan Storage Administrat...
    19 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    IBM CSM LDAP Configuration to Improve Handling of Recursive Search Directive

    Many companies today utilize nested LDAP groups for privileges, which configuration today is only possible to support in CSM by manually adding the "recursiveSearch=true" directive into the XML in the Advanced tab of LDAP Configuration. If any inf...
    9 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Reconnect message in the console to match the disconnect message

    Currently, CSM seems to only show a message when it is disconnected from a DS8K storage system but not when it subsequently reconnects. IWNH1044E Nov 5, 2025, 9:57:30 PM The Replication Manager is disconnected from a cluster for the hardware devic...
    15 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

    New Flash 4th Site command in 4 Site Replication Enhanced session

    It is requested to provide a new command "Flash 4th Site" that would provide similar functionality to the "Flash 3rd Site" command. We would request that the 4 Site session, knowing the current 4th site, would carry out all of the steps required t...
    26 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Integrate SGC Hold and Release Commands into 4 Site Replication Enhanced session

    The recently delivered SGC Hold and Preserve Backups command and the SGC Release Backup Expiration command are extremely useful for certain clients. In a 4 site environment, the Scheduled Task to automate this process must either me modified upon ...
    26 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Add Filter to the Role Pair Panel

    When working on larger CSM configurations with large number of copysets (10,000+), it is difficult to find specific volumes when looking in the Role Pair Details page. It would be very useful to have a Filter box to very quickly find certain volum...
    27 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    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...
    27 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 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).
    9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 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...
    9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Submitted

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