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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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Add GM Master Location to Global Mirror Info tab

With newer CSM sessions including multiple GM legs simultaneously, it would be very helpful to show the Location of the GM master in the display. This would help identify and differentiate the GM masters and lead to less confusion.
about 7 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Add back the small RPO graph on the Global Mirror Info tab

It seems the small RPO chart which used to be on the Global Mirror Info tab was removed in 6.3.8 although doesn't appear to have been publicized in the release notes. This was a very convenient immediate place to check recent RPO. Having to use th...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM Primary to automatically reconnect to the standby server after the standby CSM task is recycled or vice/versa Standby reconnects automatically to Primary

Every time one of our CSM started tasks is recycled or if an lpar is IPL'd when the CSM started task comes back up it does NOT reconnect to either the standby or the primray (depending on which CSM task that was shutdow/restarted. The ability of t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Add certificate JKS synchronizing between Primary and Standby Servers

Our INSOSEC department does not allow any self-signed certificates in our environment. All certificates must be CA-Signed. We currently run our Primary CSM on z/OS to make it simple to manage Hyperswap sessions. We run our Standby Servers on HMC s...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Related to SafeGuarded Copy on the DS8000. SGC backup copies CANNOT be deleted. Today, a person with adminstrator rights can still log on and delete off valid SGC backup copies. Customers have been asking for this capability to be removed.

This feature is required to ensure that SGC is totally immutable.
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Functionality already exists

Add GM capability between sites 1&2 and 3&4 to 4 site replication enhanced solution

Currently the 4 site replication enhanced solution allows a client to switch from MM to GC between sites 1&2 or between sites 3&4. Typically this functionality would be used if the MM replication was causing a significant temporary product...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Accuracy of Spectrum control summary overall storage usage , it didnt show sum up virtual capacity of SGC volumes

Spectrum Control is not accurate enought. DS8K business today is very often using the SGC Backup as majors tactics to protect against cyber threats. Would be very very valuable to have this storage capacity easy to be followed up from a simple GUI...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Allow full Box or multiple Subsystem selections in ESE and SGC Sizer sessions

When ESEsizer or SGCsizer sessions are configured, typically they are configured for a large amount of LSS/LCUs if not even for all volumes configured on the system. However, the Copy Set selection wizard does not allow to proceed, when only a sys...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Disable E-mail (and other) notifications temporarily

We are using a Notification alerting on CSM and it works well, however we would like to have a possibility of temporarily suppressing it when one does planned activity like increasing volume size (it requires breaking the mirroring, removing copy ...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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