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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

Enhance the CSM SNMP notification content

After we configured SNMP notifications in CSM, the customer successfully received the notifications. However, the notification content does not clearly indicate which object in CSM had a status change or what the new status is.
15 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

We encounter SGC backup capacity issue with production volumes due to some unexpected spike from application users. So we receive bunch of we used to receive IWNR2830E alert and email notification. There shld be a parm to limit this.

Failure action is going to be expand multiplier and expire unrecoverable backup copies. So it going to be same for one backup failure alert or bunch of failue. So we Request for Enhancement (RFE) to IBM development for capabilities such as alert t...
15 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Port 9560 Connection - Configurable Keepalive or Heart beat in application.

CSM currently appears to rely on a long-lived connection to port 9560 for High Availability. Certain enterprise firewalls remove idle TCP sessions after a set amount minutes, resulting in loss of connectivity and inability to query status from the...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Allow for Windows/Linux OS reimiaging without removing reinstallation and data restore

Add support for installation on a mounted disk (not the OS disk) and then allowing you to reregister the product with the OS after the OS disk is reimaged without having to actually reinstall the product. Then you would just unmount, reimage, remo...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Automatic retrieval of the public SSL certificate for LDAP or z/OS connections.

Manually retrieving the public SSL certificate from each server to import it into CSM during LDAP configuration or when adding a z/OS connection can be cumbersome. There are many applications that query the remote server themselves to retrieve the...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Use RACF certificates for all services instead of file based keystores

Since release 6.3.15 it is possible to use one certificate for all CSM services. One can use either RACF keyrings or file based keystores, however when one wants to set up active/standby configuration, one must use keystore. I would like to keep u...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Add scheduled task progress and concatenation visibility

With CSM 6.3.17, there is no easy capability yet in the task overview, to recognize which tasks are concatenated and how they are concatenation to get an idea about the overall task flow. Furthermore, there is no indication which task is being exe...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Scheduled Task action type improvements

Use case: Proper automation of SGC backups in a MT topology. Backups are automated on Site 3, using GM secondaries H3 as SGC source. The automation should ensure to create backups, but prevent the DR RPO remains impacted if the backup task fails i...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Automatic Recovery Enhancement for CSM Sessions After Temporary Switch Failures

In our environment, temporary switch port/SAN issues frequently cause CSM replication sessions to move into a Severe state and suspend MM/GM pairs.Even after the switch issue is resolved, CSM does not automatically clear the error or recover the s...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Chained Scheduled Tasks Return "Rolled Up" Status to API

Currently, when the API is used to call a Scheduled Task, the API return code is based solely on the result of that task. Thus, if we have a Task that calls another task upon success, and the subsequent task fails, the API will always return a suc...
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

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