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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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Accuracy of Spectrum control summary overall storage usage , it didnt show sum up virtual capacity of SGC volumes

Spectrum Control is not accurate enought. DS8K business today is very often using the SGC Backup as majors tactics to protect against cyber threats. Would be very very valuable to have this storage capacity easy to be followed up from a simple GUI...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future 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 ...
3 months 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 ...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under 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...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

Allow Multi-Target PPRC via CSM for HDS Controllers

We use Hitachi storage controllers with CSM as data mirroring software. In the case of a 3-sided controller migration, it is necessary to activate multitarget pprc. However, CSM currently does not allow this for storage controllers from other manu...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Support GC-GC cascaded start option in 3 site MT sessions

When using CSM for migration scenarios in 3 site topologies, a typical approach is to migrate via PPRC Failover or HyperSwap from old MGM cascade to a new GC-GC cascade. Today, the new GC-GC cascade requires to use temporary 2 site MM sessions bei...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

RPO Monitoring by using the CSM status

The RPO is monitoring in a CSM Global Mirror session by using RPO alerts, according to warning and severe level thresholds. When RPO warning level is reached an IWNR2751W message will be seen in the CSM console log, and when RPO severe level is re...
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

Include a section with fix number and description of fixes in the release notes

One of my customers opened a support case for an issue with CSM, the Support team found out they hit a bug in CSM and suggested to upgrade the CSM to a newer version (6.3.6.0) that included the fix, but they were not able to find any information i...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Provide connectivity from the CSM to the arrays when IP network is gone

In a worst case, Have the ability to perform a restore is the IP Network is unavailable. Have the ability to 'hardwire' a server running CSM to connect and communicate with the array to perform backup and restore.
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Session warning status in the event of DS8k CEC failure

When a DS8k experiences a CEC failure, CSM reports errors on LCUs that are associated with that CEC and changes the session status to Severe (giving the impression to the customer that there is a mirroring problem or scenario that would cause issu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

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