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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

    Improve zOS host IP connection loss detection and failover behavior

    There have been incidents in the field showing the current design of CSM z/OS host IP connection loss detection and failover to redundant active host connection is significantly delayed to 15-20 minutes. This may happen especially when the connect...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Related to SafeGuarded Copy on the DS8000. SGC backup copies CANNOT be deleted. Today, a person with adminstrator rights can still log on and delete off valid SGC backup copies. Customers have been asking for this capability to be removed.

    This feature is required to ensure that SGC is totally immutable.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Functionality already exists

    Add scheduled task progress and concatenation visibility

    With CSM 6.3.17, there is no easy capability yet in the task overview, to recognize which tasks are concatenated and how they are concatenation to get an idea about the overall task flow. Furthermore, there is no indication which task is being exe...
    5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Add a SYSLOG option for console logs

    In addition to having the option to view the console logs in the user interface add an option to offload to a syslog server similar to hardware platforms (DS8, VTS, etc).
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Query for bitmap increment status

    During a configuration change from H3->H1->H2 to H1->H2->H3, running the start H1->H2->H3 command may result in an unexpected full copy from H2 to H3 instead of a quick resync (for example, when z/OS systems were down after rolli...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Submitted

    add affected storage system / path for the message IWNR1963W

    The message IWNR1963W is: One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed. Sometime there are micro network issue that makes the path have a punctual error. As we have several storage system in ou...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Improve CSMCLI scripting by enabling an echo and echoprefix

    In DSCLI, you can define echo on/off and you can set an echoprefix. In CSMCLI, this is still not available. When running CSMCLI in script mode, you see in the output dataset only the command response, but not command itself and you see only the IP...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Ability to Optionally Redirect SGC Backup to HMC Connection if z/OS Connection is not available

    In an SGC configuration where the SGC Backups are driven off of the Cascaded Global Mirror leg, clients using z/OS connections to drive SGC Backup commands typically do so because the backup performance through the z/OS connection is usually much ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

    Prevent TERMINATE of practice disks if a volume is online

    In a session with practice disks, can you add an option to prevent TERMINATE if at least one of the practice disks is online please ?
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    When a PPRC session is being built within CSM, if the source and target SSIDs match, there should be a warning or a message that clearly states why this is a problem.

    We had a configuration error in our PPRC target where the SSID of the target was the same is the primary. CSM allowed us to create the copyset even though the SSIDs were not unique.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Not under consideration

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