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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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Display actions for a scheduled task

To investigate what is done by a scheduled task, i need to modify this task. For me it should be great to have an action button to display actions for a scheduled task without tthe need to select the modify action for displaying actions. Also if i...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Enhanced Scheduled Task Interface

For users will multi-step Scheduled Tasks used for automation, it would be very helpful to provide an enhanced interface for viewing and managing those tasks. I would love the see an interface with the following capabilities: The base interface wo...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Ability to Start a Scheduled Task at a certain Step

For users with Scheduled Tasks comprised of multiple actions, it would be very helpful to provide the capability to restart a task after a task failure. The restart would skip the actions that were successfully completed thus greatly simplifying e...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Ability to View Scheduled Task

Currently it is not possible to view a CSM Scheduled Task. The only option to view the details and the Actions that a Task will execute is by issuing the Modify command and then cancelling before updating anything. This is less than ideal from a s...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Temporarily Pause SGC Backup Schedule

Clients taking SGC backups on a regular basis, especially those using a frequent interval, may want to temporarily pause those SGC backups during periods of low activity. For instance, a bank taking SGC backups numerous times per day may want to n...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

RPO Error Alerts on Cascaded GM leg for 4 Site Replication Enhanced Session

Currently, the RPO threshold alerts are suppressed by CSM on the Cascaded GM leg. We would like the Error level to be externalized even when the GM leg is a cascaded leg. In the case where this leg is being used for SGC, the CSM backups will not b...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Provide SMTP Authentication capability to CSM (Copy Services Manager)

I work at a financial institution and our Security Department has recently implemented a policy to block all unauthenticated SMTP which, of course, is affecting alerts via email from CSM. This forced us to utilized SNMP for alerting...which isn’t ...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

View by User Defined Group

Would like to have a View By User Group option under Sessions. When having multiple sessions the User Defined Group option is great for sorting. However, being able to roll them up under the User Groups (like with view by Volume Group) would make ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

allow a time offset in the passticket generation

Necessary if CSM is managing across time zones
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Delivered