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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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For V7000 and SVC create an automated report for the status of Global Mirror sessions

Create a global mirroring report providing the status of V7000 and SVC Global mirroring that can be automatically run daily and sent via email to end users. Should contain the following (at a minimum)CG_Name Active Connnected CurrentDate/Time Last...
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

No Copy option on Metro Mirror w/P session

In DS8K environments using ESE volumes we would like to have the No Copy option for Metro Mirror with practice sessions as already available on GM w/P session type.
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

ELB not managed by TPC/R

For an effective and convenient management of a DS8000 replication environment, it would be very useful if TPC-R could manage ELB timeout for every LCU/LSS in a MM/MGM environment. In fact, a clear display of this parameter for the session (e.g. t...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Manually importing global mirror relationships from IBM Storwize products to IBM CSM without deleting consistency groups

Should have capability to import existing Global Mirror relationships to Copy Services Manager.
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

TPC-R integration with VMware SRA for SRM

I'm submitting on behalf of a customer who's using TPC-R to manage replication between multiple Storwize/SVC systems and supporting IBM i, AIX, Windows and VMware hosts. For VMware, they're using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to automate failover. W...
over 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Import existing hardware copy services relationships directly by CSM

Customer is using DSCLI to manage Copy Services relationships and now they want to migrate the existing CS relationships to CSM, but customer have a lot of DS8Ks and CS relationships, it's not easy and time consuming to do it manually, we also tri...
about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

CSM to include text of event in email subject for email notifications

It would be very helpful if the email notifications from CSM could include not just the event code, but the text of the event in the email subject.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Link the volume name to the subsession on LSVOL command

Customer is scripting command in open environment with CSMSCLI.The environment is a GM environment with the use of sub-session as the customer wants a granularity at the VM level.He needs to find to whom session LUN(s) belongs to in order to creat...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Drop off state F-SYS after Basic Hyperswap

Hello Support, after loading the Basic Hyperswap configuration all secondary devices get state F-SYS. This state persists untill the next IPL. CSM has commands to Suspend PPRC-Pairs ("Stop") and to Delete PPRC-Pairs ("Terminate"). I expect another...
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

Add path status in Overview Screen Page

In IBM Copy Service Manager It's possible add path status in Overview Screen Page?? We monitoring Overview page for potential issues of session, server connection, but we don't see path status, that is visible only in a specific screen
over 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

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