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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Safeguarded Copy Automation for Data Validation, IPL, Data Validation and Customer Notification

I would like to see automation added to CSM to move a SGC backup to Recovery volumes and then trigger an IPL for the Data Validation process that is vital to Ransomware protection. I also want CSM to monitor all of the started tasks from the IPL t...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

CSM allows the use of multiple cryptographic TLS protocols

CSM can actually only select one version of TLS in the configuration member. Parameter of Configuration member csmServer: protocol=TLSv1.2 In order to simplify management and enable error-free migration to TLS v1.3 across different LPARs, we are r...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

CSM SGC backup count reporting

Enhance CSM to provide comprehensive reporting and alerting for SGC backups, improving visibility into backup health and recoverability. This capability will help operations and support teams proactively monitor backup status and identify risks
about 2 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...
8 days 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...
20 days 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...
20 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

CSM Heap Usage Monitoring

In mixed storage environments where a single CSM instance manages multiple sessions, especially with SGC, administrators do not have real-time visibility into current Java heap utilization. As a result, there is no reliable way to determine whethe...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) should be differentiate between real HOST-Connections issues vs. a planned shut down from one or more HOST systems.

Starting with CSM 6.3.10 IBM has introduced his Multi Sysplex Support (feature 87578b). With this feature are several resilience topics addressed to make the tool less prone to incorrect operation. One decision that has been made, for example, is ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 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).
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

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