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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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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...
about 2 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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...
about 3 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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...
about 3 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Display Standby Synchronization Progress

In larger environments, it can take some time for the Active server to synchronize the Standby and progress to the Synchronized state. Currently there is no way to know how much progress has been made or how soon the servers will become Synchroniz...
about 4 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

New Synchronize and Swap command related to Active and Standby Servers

Create a new command that would combine the steps to synchronize a Standby server and then automatically swap the Active and Standby servers once the initialize synchronize completes. For larger environments where server synchronization takes an e...
1 day ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

New Swap Active/Standby command that completes a Takeover and immediately restores synchronization from the new Active and Standby servers

In order to swap the Active and Standby servers, current csm functionality requires the following steps: 1. Takeover command issued to the Standby - wait for the Standby (new Active) to complete its startup processing. 2. Set Standby issued to the...
1 day ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Under review

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).
about 2 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...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Submitted

When a PPRC session is being built within CSM, if the source and target SSIDs match, there should be a warning or a message that clearly states why this is a problem.

We had a configuration error in our PPRC target where the SSID of the target was the same is the primary. CSM allowed us to create the copyset even though the SSIDs were not unique.
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Not under consideration

add option for the tgtread status

We are using CSM on open system to manage zOS LPAR. When we create replication, the option tgtread is at yes with CSM, which is not compatible with zOS. Can you add a checkbox to manage this option?
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration