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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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FlashCopy DUMPCONDITIONING

CSM does not support a FlashCopy DUMPCONDITIONING session.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

SVC Autorestart should give timer indication in UI while suspended if it is set to restart.

CSM 6.1.x introduced the functionality of session restart during 1720/1920 type errors. There is also a way to set a timer on how long the session will attempt a restart. CSM should have an easier way to determine if the session is pending a resta...
about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 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 Session Overview List - Sort by Name

Suggestion when discussing CSM with Jack Henry. Back with TPC-R we were used to having the Session List displayed first by Status, and then sorted by Session name. So, the active sessions are at the top, and the remaining sessions are sorted by na...
about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Add Dynamic Volume Expansion capability

Dynamic volume expansion requires many manual steps when the volume(s) to be expanded are in a copy services relationship. CSM has all the information necessary to facilitate this process for a client. My client requests that CSM handle the end to...
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Need Practice Volume Support for SVC GM with Change Volumes

Need the ability to have CSM manage copysets in SVC GM that include change volumes and practice volumes.
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

VMWare SRM + TPC-R + XIV Integration

We use vmware SRM with VMs using XIV storage and using TPC-R for replica management and monitoring.Once the SRM has moved the VM, TPC-R shows an error message because the status is severe.IBM support explain us that the integration with SRM + XIV ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

MGM RPO graphs embedded in CSM GUI

We have 19 x DS8000 MGM sessions. All of them are managed by CSM.We need a graph (one for each MGM session) ,embedded in CSM GUI, with RPO behaviour over time.We are an outsourcer for banks and customers are asking us to certify the RPO over the t...
about 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 5 Planned for future release

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

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

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