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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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Only Report Status on Relevant Paths from Storage Systems Panel

In our environment, we have IP to z/OS connectivity enabled. As such, we have ZOS:NATIVE connections and IP to z/OS connections to other LPARs. For the ZOS:NATIVE connections, it is not possible for the Standby server to connect via FICON to the s...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Allow the CSM DSCLI for Z logs directory to point to a user-specified location.

Modify the CSM DSCLI for Z product such that the logs directory, and any other directory the product writes to, can be directed to another location than the product's install location, currently CSM_ProductionRoot/logs. This would be an environmen...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Include the automatic Refresh States after an event "Hardware connection.... is now accessible (IWNH1038I)

After a hardware error in one of the device server of the Storage, CSM reported a communication errors and changed the replication sessions from Normal to Severe. However, for the Hardware Storage side, there was no replication impact, as the othe...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

Add certificate JKS synchronizing between Primary and Standby Servers

Our INSOSEC department does not allow any self-signed certificates in our environment. All certificates must be CA-Signed. We currently run our Primary CSM on z/OS to make it simple to manage Hyperswap sessions. We run our Standby Servers on HMC s...
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Consolidate multiple HW event messages affecting the same session in short time frame

While running a secondary migration of GDPS managed GM or MM pairs, there is the step after running the Prepare for Secondary Migration was processed. This is where the external DR/CG solution should suspend the pairs before executing the Perform ...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Improve CSM Monitoring : create "customer" own list of message containing specific pattern to trigger email alert function

Ability to create custom list of " chosen message and filtering "sheduled task completed" only for session starting by pattern a specif pattern Company01 , Company02...,. We are using CSM in very converged / consolidated infra, our CSM handle many...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Needs more information

z/OS HyperSwap and Concurrent Copy

After a HyperSwap, the command "Start H2->H1" (Start H1->H2 respectively) will fail if there a active Concurrent Copy Sessions on secondaries (former primaries). CSM will show error IWNR2108E RC 0F13. We know IBM recommends to eliminate any ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Alert user when number of volumes assigned to a volume group is different than number of volumes assigned to host group

A situation where an insufficient number of volumes are replicated in a DR scenario could result in a disaster. Alerting to the incorrect number of volumes being replicated could prevent this. The simplest way to determine the "correct" number of ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Provide more details for Mail alert notifications for messages such as, IWNR1963W One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed.

These alert notifications did not have any information regarding what paths and for which storage subsystems were affected during the path loss. When the CSM console logs were checked there were also no messages for this event and all paths were g...
8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Disallow to run a SGC recover when R1 devices are already in use (by another recover or by a practise H3)

In our configuration R1 devices for SafeGuardedCopy are the same as H3 devices for practice. When we flash I3 devices on H3 devices for practise and then we run a recover backup for SGC the task failed with a x0FAE error code.But one time the H3 d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Needs more information

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