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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

RPO Error Alerts on Cascaded GM leg for 4 Site Replication Enhanced Session

Currently, the RPO threshold alerts are suppressed by CSM on the Cascaded GM leg. We would like the Error level to be externalized even when the GM leg is a cascaded leg. In the case where this leg is being used for SGC, the CSM backups will not b...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Provide SMTP Authentication capability to CSM (Copy Services Manager)

I work at a financial institution and our Security Department has recently implemented a policy to block all unauthenticated SMTP which, of course, is affecting alerts via email from CSM. This forced us to utilized SNMP for alerting...which isn’t ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

View by User Defined Group

Would like to have a View By User Group option under Sessions. When having multiple sessions the User Defined Group option is great for sorting. However, being able to roll them up under the User Groups (like with view by Volume Group) would make ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

add option for the tgtread status

We are using CSM on open system to manage zOS LPAR. When we create replication, the option tgtread is at yes with CSM, which is not compatible with zOS. Can you add a checkbox to manage this option?
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

allow a time offset in the passticket generation

Necessary if CSM is managing across time zones
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Allow MONITOR role to 'view' all (or most) items and configurations in CSM

Currently the MONITOR role in CSM does not allow access to things like port pairing csv or authentication settings and even the scheduled tasks. As a result we always need an ID with ADMINISTRATIVE access. Per our firm's security standards the adm...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Password rules should not apply to ID'S with no GUI access

We have an automation ID that does not have GUI access, but we want to implement password rules. Currently the version of 6.3.12 only provides an all or nothing feature for password rules. I would suggest excluding automation ID'S from password va...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Notification email "From" address should be configurable from GUI and CSM configuration file

The default email "From" address on notifications is "csmServer@server.domain.tld" or "csmServer@ip.address". With NATed servers, and Email spam prevention, we need to be able to configure this value to meet customer environment requirements.
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

essclient.properties file activity

SMF records show that this property file is being read circa 100M times per day, driving high I/O rates and CPU activity. It doesn't make sense that a static property file should need to be read this frequently.
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Implement password policy for CSM Users in the Basic User Registry

There is obviously no password policy for CSM Userids in the basic user registry, when using CSM on HMC. This is a security breach, because the CSM users are not prompted to use a complex password. But in most cases, they do it voluntary to ensure...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

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