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Utilise RACF PassTickets for Host Connections from CSM on DS8K HMC to z/OS system.

Current and only available method for Host connection from the CSM residing on the DS8K HMC to the z/OS system requires authentication via a normal RACF defined userid and password on z/OS. However, customer password expiration policies dictate a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Add back the small RPO graph on the Global Mirror Info tab

It seems the small RPO chart which used to be on the Global Mirror Info tab was removed in 6.3.8 although doesn't appear to have been publicized in the release notes. This was a very convenient immediate place to check recent RPO. Having to use th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Support of VVOL Replication and QoS for Spectrum Virtualize

Hi, I would like to ask support related of Spectrum Virtualize integration with VMware.Product: Spectrum VirtualizeCustomer : We're work with a S1 Account, Serpro, who will buy Storage and Virtualization solution for refresh their environment.Cust...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Allow MONITOR role to 'view' all (or most) items and configurations in CSM

Currently the MONITOR role in CSM does not allow access to things like port pairing csv or authentication settings and even the scheduled tasks. As a result we always need an ID with ADMINISTRATIVE access. Per our firm's security standards the adm...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Delivered

Capacity on demand enhancement

Today's design of TS7770 Capacity on demand with FC 5262 and 5263 is not flexible enough as it is not aligned with the hardware capacity. E.g. in a six-drawer configuration the cache capacity is 472 TB but only 400 TB can be enabled by above FCs. ...
over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 5 Delivered

Ability to replicate storage fusion backup and restore service protection

When we backup the service protection to an s3 compliant backup location, the service protection cannot be replicated to another s3 compliant backup location say at a DR site. It would be ideal if we can replication the service protection backup t...
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 3 Delivered

Increase the maximum number of consistency groups

We need to support more than 32 consistency groups (idealy double). We have a customer that is using a DS8k in Open (non-Z environement) and this limitation have an impact to current installation but also to any feature DS8k installations . For ex...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

snapdiff option for clustered ontap (netapp)

HelloWe have new Netapp filers in prodcution since 2 months and these use the new clustered ontap version (8.2). I have opened a PMR because the snapdiff option didn't work on these filers and the support told me that snapdiff was only possible on...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 11 Delivered

9848-AF8 / 8.3.1.1 limits migration speed ( number of threads )

After upgrading FS9x00 - 9848-AF8 to 8.3.1.1, the number of threads when migrating out of internal mdiskgrp has been limited to 4. That combination can be reached by 4x1, 2x2, 1x4 - the total number of threads cannot exceed 4 This is a limitation ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

CSM does not show single failed PPRC path in overview console

CSM console is the main Monitoring tool for all z/OS storage related issues. Recently, we lost one of the PPRC paths but this error was not visible in the overview console. The seesion overview console showed everything as normal (no warning and n...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 6 Delivered

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