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    Support for non paged mechanism in IBM CSM Flash Copy Manager for z/OS (CSMFCM)

    The CSMFCM does not have a non paged mechanism that can survive a freeze. If the page disks are in the configuration the CSMFCM itself get frozen and therefore could not issue the thaw. Therefore it falls on the hardware ELB for the thaw to occur.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    CSM CSM/FCMGR should implemented support of ALL supported MSS

    MSS 3 war introduced 5 year ago (with z13) Page 20 and 21: https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248260.pdf (Now we are migrating from z14 to z15) IBM Utilities / Programs have implemented MSS 3 support (without RFEs) I'll do RFE if this he...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Site locations to inherit the location of the devices

    Have sessions inherit the site locations that are configured for the devices that are involved in the session. Currently the site locations are custom fields that could be set to any text. You can select any location even ones that don't match the...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    use CSM to create volumes and replication from end to end

    CSM has the knowledge of the box and replication. We could imagine defining policy in CSM with replication type etc... (MM, MGM ...) and when we define new volumes, let CSM create LVOLS on all DS8k and create replication link defined in the policy...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Add TDP for Oracle to Retention Sets type of data that can be included

    Currently, retention sets allow TDP for SQL, B/A Client, TDP for Mail, DP for VE (both VMware and Hyper-V) but only TDP for DB - Oracle is NOT supported and this is reallly needed for long term retention - there's a class of backups that is comple...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Add "StartGC to Site 3" command for GM Either Direction with Site 3 Global Copy session

    CSM knows which site is currently the GM Target site. It would be extremely convenient if there was a generic Start GC command that started the appropriate GC replication leg (H1->H3 or H2->H3) from the GM Target site to the Bunker site with...
    8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Dscli output file in code page IBM-1047 when running in z/OS environment

    I use dscli from Z/OS system and using Java batch procédure. When i execute the following commands : offloadfile -perfdata /tmp offloadfile -fcdata /tmp the resulting file is in code page iso8859-1 and not ibm-1047. So to interpret the file file i...
    8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    Adjust CSM panel scroll windows with Browser window size and support filters

    There are a couple of panels in CSM GUI which do not adjust their scroll list window size to the browser window size. This results in small CSM scroll windows which may contain very long lists although there is plenty of white space in the browser...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Change the user running admin schedules

    It would be good to have some system user running the admin schedules instead of the last user updating/creating the schedule. To avoid schedules failing due to admins getting removed from the environment.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    All GM consistent groups freeze status

    Its better add the feature like alert which can be scheduled for data exposure at consistent group (session) level. Normally we can see freeze time when we run "lsrcconsistgrp" at SVC CLI.
    8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

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