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    The Menu ?DS8000 Paths? should include the Location column

    If you add a storage connection at the “Storage System” menu you are able to give the new storage system a “description” at the Location column. This is very helpful to distinguish the storage systems. It would be very helpful to display this colu...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    CSM - Automatically Synchronise Standby Server Sessions After IPL.

    We have two DS8000 Controllers in a full MM - Hyperswap Configuration. We have two CSM Sessions running on two different LPARS in our SYSPLEX. ( LPAR1 (Primary ) and LPAR2 (Standby) ) We observe that after IPL of the LPAR2 ( Configured as the Stan...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    Optimize HSM file scan logic to prevent recall and re-backup of stub files after file move.

    At Present, when a HSM stub file is moved, a subsequent TSM backup recalls the file and backs this up again. This is a huge problem in large HSM installations and causes significant issues for the administrators supporting the system, and IBM supp...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Disable E-mail (and other) notifications temporarily

    We are using a Notification alerting on CSM and it works well, however we would like to have a possibility of temporarily suppressing it when one does planned activity like increasing volume size (it requires breaking the mirroring, removing copy ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Adding Support for Multi Target PPRC in CSM for Hitachi VSP5000 Systems

    We use in our Datacenter for migration last year multi target concept to migrate our old vsp to new one and use Hittachi TrueCopy and CSM to do that. We see that also Multitarget PPRC are working as expectetd but we missed the complete support of ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    Limit SP client install to supported OS

    According to SP client release notes page:https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21052226The client is OS requirement is AIX 7.1 or 7.2, however the installation proceeds without any error on AIX 6.1 / VIO 2.2.xStarting the scheduler ju...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Add the Persisent option for the practice FC (H3-I3 role pair) in CSM session.

    The MM-GM with practice session is missing the Persistent option for the H3-I3 FC role pair (I suppose the other session with practice are missing the option too). This is useful if H3 volumes are space efficient, the FC relation should be persist...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

    Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance Backup

    Customers are migrating SQL databases to Azure, running them either as Azure SQL Databases or Azure SQL Managed Instances. There is no IBM documentation which acknowledges whether any of the Spectrum Protect products support backup of SQL PaaS in ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    CSM support scheduled task for longer period

    Scheduled task only support hourly, daily and weekly now, would like to extend the support to monthly and yearly.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Add Dynamic Volume Expansion capability

    Dynamic volume expansion requires many manual steps when the volume(s) to be expanded are in a copy services relationship. CSM has all the information necessary to facilitate this process for a client. My client requests that CSM handle the end to...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

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