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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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Add back the small RPO graph on the Global Mirror Info tab

It seems the small RPO chart which used to be on the Global Mirror Info tab was removed in 6.3.8 although doesn't appear to have been publicized in the release notes. This was a very convenient immediate place to check recent RPO. Having to use th...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Copy Service Alerting for missing/stale safeguarded copy session

CSM doesn't send any kind of notification for missing safeguared copy of a given vdisk.
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

API to update device passwords for Spectrum Virt and other devices

Please add an endpoint to the API to update device passwords for Spectrum Virtualize (and perhaps other devices.) The updateHMC endpoint only works for DS8000. Our environment includes FS9k's in multiple availability zones across multiple regions....
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Granular selection of user ROLE controls, or custom roles

We need the ability to build a role that allows an user to resume a replication session, but not alter the session(s). Additionally, we would like this role to be able to take flash copies. OR the ability to build a custom role where all functions...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

CSM Primary to automatically reconnect to the standby server after the standby CSM task is recycled or vice/versa Standby reconnects automatically to Primary

Every time one of our CSM started tasks is recycled or if an lpar is IPL'd when the CSM started task comes back up it does NOT reconnect to either the standby or the primray (depending on which CSM task that was shutdow/restarted. The ability of t...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Allow full Box or multiple Subsystem selections in ESE and SGC Sizer sessions

When ESEsizer or SGCsizer sessions are configured, typically they are configured for a large amount of LSS/LCUs if not even for all volumes configured on the system. However, the Copy Set selection wizard does not allow to proceed, when only a sys...
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Copy Services Manager Should Not Delete Relationships from Storage Hardware when Removing Systems from CSM

Change the Behavior of Copy Services Manager so that removing the storage system from Copy Services Manager will not delete the relationships on the Storage Hardware.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

CSM to Provide Capability to Preserve Data in a 5th Copy (Secondary) after Changing the Primary SRC in a 4-Site MM/GM Session

Currently, we are setting up to use the 3-Site GM/GC Session which helps us with maintaining the 3rd copy (LCP) and avoiding Full-Push exposure when region switching (PRESS) between Data Centers. We would like to see if there was a way to provide ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Add a user timeout option for the user interface of Copy Services Manager

I know that there is not an option to set a user time out for the user interface of CSM. Due to security and audit reasons there is a need to have a user be logged out after a certain idle time. Having the option to set this to maybe 30 minutes or...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Command to start first Global Copy and switch to MM after 99% of completetion

We have a problem after starting H1-H2 (Metro mirror). At the beginning of start H1-H2 dasd are copied with a good velocity. At the end when DS8K had few data to copy, the time to do this remaining job tooks a very very long time. On our configura...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

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