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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

    Integrate SGC Hold and Release Commands into 4 Site Replication Enhanced session

    The recently delivered SGC Hold and Preserve Backups command and the SGC Release Backup Expiration command are extremely useful for certain clients. In a 4 site environment, the Scheduled Task to automate this process must either me modified upon ...
    7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Better representation of a "Migration" type session state in CSM

    Migration type sessions in CSM are designed to run replications in async mode (Global Copy) only. When you start a migration type session, the replications start in the GC mode and the session is in the "Preparing" state and it has a status of "Wa...
    5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    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 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Planned for future release

    Add withdrawal of persistent practice FC relationship in GM or MM Session

    With the more prevalent use of ESE for practice volumes, it would be beneficial to be able to stop the FC relationship to the practice set of volumes instead of having to schedule a flash to relieve space constraints.
    5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Integration support for ARCOS/ARCON Privileged Access Management (PAM) for Copy Service manager (CSM) tool

    ICICI bank has 90+ IBM Storage arrays being managed by three IBM tools - Spectrum Control (TPC), Storage Insights (SI) and Copy Service manager (CSM). These should integrate with ARCOS for obtaining the password to access/work with storage arrays....
    6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Enhanced CSM Notification with priority and persistence functionality

    Adding the ability to make an alert persistent by selection would allow for some level of prioritization for critical type alerts versus non critical or informational type alerts. Currently the alerts are one shot. The alerts are not redriven at a...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Improve the CSM behaviour to find free session IDs on the hardware

    At the moment CSM only checks the GM masters running on the Ds8000 and their state. It is not checked which LSS sessions are configured but are not members of a running Global Mirror. In situations where the DS8k hardware is managed by different t...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    IBM CSM LDAP Configuration to Improve Handling of Recursive Search Directive

    Many companies today utilize nested LDAP groups for privileges, which configuration today is only possible to support in CSM by manually adding the "recursiveSearch=true" directive into the XML in the Advanced tab of LDAP Configuration. If any inf...
    7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Improve the Logical Path Change alert to be more specific.

    Currently, when a connection is temporarily dropped, we receive an email alert (like the one shown below) to notify us that a path has gone down. In the DS8K log, we can see when the path goes down, & when comes back up, but the alerts show th...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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