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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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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 ...
over 1 year 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...
about 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...
almost 6 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 ...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Need SNMPv3 support in CSM

My customer is moving his monitoring tool to SNMPv3 and he would like to monitor CSM also with SNMPv3 so he's requesting CSM to support SNMPv3.
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM support scheduled task for longer period

Scheduled task only support hourly, daily and weekly now, would like to extend the support to monthly and yearly.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

CSM To have options in GUI to export and import Web Certificates

Requesting there to be functionality within the CSM application in order to export and import the web certificates used by the CSM web GUI. I had raised the mentioned PMR to inquire about the process as it was not included in the documentation I c...
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM To Include the System and Path for any Alert Message About Paths

Please include the system and the path in any email notifications about paths. Also these messages should be logged to the console as well as being sent in email.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

ELB not managed by TPC/R

For an effective and convenient management of a DS8000 replication environment, it would be very useful if TPC-R could manage ELB timeout for every LCU/LSS in a MM/MGM environment. In fact, a clear display of this parameter for the session (e.g. t...
over 11 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

ESEsizer - Enhance error handling conditions around communication timeouts caused by network drops

It would seem that the ESEsizer tool requires network connectivity for a long duration when collecting stats from the DS8900. Unfortunately, when there are network dropouts - the whole ESEsizer session is ruined, and you need to start again - whic...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration