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    Include the automatic Refresh States after an event "Hardware connection.... is now accessible (IWNH1038I)

    After a hardware error in one of the device server of the Storage, CSM reported a communication errors and changed the replication sessions from Normal to Severe. However, for the Hardware Storage side, there was no replication impact, as the othe...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

    Check and Remove existing IR bitmap when Preparing for Secondary Migration to avoid full copy during resync to new secondary

    The CSM secondary migration feature uses the IR bitmap on the primary system to perform an incremental resync to a new secondary system. Actually, when CSM perform the Prepare for Secondary Migration step, it will request the DS8000 to set the IR ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    TSM Audit library should not require setting the library "offline"

    TSM Library Manager often loses information about the location of a cartridge in the library.Most of all cases happen after a Drive-, or Robot-mechanics failure.TSM Librarymanager then demands an "Audit Library".To do that "audit", we need to stop...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

    Restore more than 1 VM at the time with the tdpve web gui

    Restore Multiple VMS at ones from the web Gui from the same job ibm spectrum protect virtual environments
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Customize At Risk intervals to reflect real environment

    In order to have the Operations Center reflect correctly the risk status of Spectrum Protect nodes we should be able to inform accuratedly when the backups really run. Some clients, for instance, have nodes that run backups only on weekdays, so th...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    parallel session when using node replication from tape

    Need support for parallel session when using node replication from tape.When for example run a RMAN Backup with 4 session to tape, we can replicate the data with 4 sessions over 4 tape and 4 drives to other side. With Node Replication only one ses...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Possibility to deploy/update Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center

    Update of Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center is not possible.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    Support for the recognition of cascaded FlashCopy volumes

    If a target volume of an existing FlashCopy relationship is used with FCM as source volumes (Cascaded FlashCopy), the FlashCopy relationship is established, but is not displayed in the report as an existing FlashCopy relationship. Even a Verfiy wi...
    11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Provide more details for Mail alert notifications for messages such as, IWNR1963W One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed.

    These alert notifications did not have any information regarding what paths and for which storage subsystems were affected during the path loss. When the CSM console logs were checked there were also no messages for this event and all paths were g...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Improve CSM Monitoring : create "customer" own list of message containing specific pattern to trigger email alert function

    Ability to create custom list of " chosen message and filtering "sheduled task completed" only for session starting by pattern a specif pattern Company01 , Company02...,. We are using CSM in very converged / consolidated infra, our CSM handle many...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Needs more information

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