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    Email Title better accurate

    When you receive an EMAIL from CSM notification, on the title you only have the message number. It is better if you can add to the title some information more explaindatory like the CSM source identification + Timestamp + user_variable or else. If...
    2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    For security reasons, Storage Protect components should use file access rights 750 (DORA)

    Resulting from DORA, customer Finance Informatik needs to improve operational resilience. From Wikipedia: "The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), officially Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 is a European Union regulation. It requires financial en...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    z/OS HyperSwap and Concurrent Copy

    After a HyperSwap, the command "Start H2->H1" (Start H1->H2 respectively) will fail if there a active Concurrent Copy Sessions on secondaries (former primaries). CSM will show error IWNR2108E RC 0F13. We know IBM recommends to eliminate any ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    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...
    5 months 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...
    5 months 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...
    5 months 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...
    5 months 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...
    5 months 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...
    5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Under review

    Add Support for IBM Spectrum Scale SafeguardCopy in Spectrum Protect as enhanced Cybercrime Solution for the Spectrum Protect Server Platform

    In the area of cyberattacks its necessary to enhance the data-security in Spectrum Protect Installations. These attacks are coming. If we can immplement the scale safeguard Copy function in an spectrum protect installation for our GPFS Conf, DB, l...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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