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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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CSM certificate processing

We have just upgraded CSM from 6.2.0 to 6.2.7 and during that upgrade we found that for the host connections none of them would connect due to a TLS handshake issue (case TS003534863 was opened). The issue was that we needed to import the lpars ce...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Adjust CSM panel scroll windows with Browser window size and support filters

There are a couple of panels in CSM GUI which do not adjust their scroll list window size to the browser window size. This results in small CSM scroll windows which may contain very long lists although there is plenty of white space in the browser...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

CSM API token generation without a user ID & password

Using CSM API, we are planning to manage our recovery procedures. But the major roadblock is password generation for CSM. Because of audit concerns we cannot have a static password for a ID. So, because of this, we are unable to make the procedure...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM CSM/FCMGR should implemented support of ALL supported MSS

MSS 3 war introduced 5 year ago (with z13) Page 20 and 21: https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248260.pdf (Now we are migrating from z14 to z15) IBM Utilities / Programs have implemented MSS 3 support (without RFEs) I'll do RFE if this he...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM ability for more than two CSM servers in configuration sharing a common database and staying in synch. Active/Active

3. The ability two have more than two Servers actively sharing the same CSM database. As an Active/Active instead of an Active/Standby configuration. The ability to have more than two servers join the same CSM configuration and stay in Synch with ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 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...
about 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Check and Remove existing IR bitmap when Preparing for Secondary Migration to avoid full copy during resync to new secondary

The CSM secondary migration feature uses the IR bitmap on the primary system to perform an incremental resync to a new secondary system. Actually, when CSM perform the Prepare for Secondary Migration step, it will request the DS8000 to set the IR ...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Improve CSMCLI framework to simplify scripting

Currently the CSMCLI framework has some weird and inconsistent behavior how error messages and return codes are being returned to the caller. This makes customized scripting difficult because for each scripting platform a comprehensive CSMCLI wrap...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM FCM show incorrect CylinderCount on EAVs with more than 999999 Cyl

CSM FCM (FlashCopyManager) does not show the correct Cylinder count in case of using EAV Volumes with more than 999,999 Cyls. FCM truncates first digit For me this is a defect and should be solved on PMR basis. IBM told me to open RFE.I hope, this...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Associate Multiple Sysplexes on different type of sessions

Allow to associate multiple sysplexes to one session to support features as Hyperswap for SAS and shared volumes. As implemented in CSM 6.3.10 for 4 sites replication enhanced sessions we would like to be able to associate multiple sysplexes to a ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration