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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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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 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Functionality already exists

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 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) should be differentiate between real HOST-Connections issues vs. a planned shut down from one or more HOST systems.

Starting with CSM 6.3.10 IBM has introduced his Multi Sysplex Support (feature 87578b). With this feature are several resilience topics addressed to make the tool less prone to incorrect operation. One decision that has been made, for example, is ...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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 ?
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Free space on Flash Copy target devices after a Terminate command

A FC no-copy relation only copies data if the source has been changed (new data has been written). If the primary device has been fully updated all tracks have been copied to the target device and thoses devices are no more in a FC relationship. W...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Email Title better accurate

When you receive an EMAIL from CSM notification, on the title you only have the message number. It is better if you can add to the title some information more explaindatory like the CSM source identification + Timestamp + user_variable or else. If...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Retain CSM level after HMC Kernel update

When CSM is upgraded outside of a Remote Code Load (RCL) using the stand alone DSCLI and an RCL occurs afterwards where the HMC kernel is updated, CSM is back-leveled to the version that is included in the microcode bundle. This forces the User/Ad...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

Log of a scheduled task in a dedicated window

When i run a scheduled task, the result is in console log. So if a problem happened and i have activity on CSM console log the failing message is difficult to find and also it is not easier to cath all actions doned by the script. It can be easier...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Display actions for a scheduled task

To investigate what is done by a scheduled task, i need to modify this task. For me it should be great to have an action button to display actions for a scheduled task without tthe need to select the modify action for displaying actions. Also if i...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Larger window when you modify a scheduled task

When i want to change a scheduled task, a window is opened inside the window. The new window is small and i can't see all informations concerning the task unless i have a large screen. I have to move with the mouse to read all informations or see ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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