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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Enable TLS encryption as default for Mail Notifications

As default, it is not possible to use the Mail Notifications from (e.g.) CSM 6.2.8 to send mails with TLS encryption. If you contact an Exchange Server where sending from E-Mails without encryption is not allowed, you got during SMTP Server setup ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

CSM LDAP authentication with native RACF/SDBM

CSM is not able to authenticate with IBM Directory Server for z/OS configured with SDBM backend.With SDBM backend a IBM Directory Server is communication with RACF directly. No own database is requered.The native authentication with RACF/SDBM shou...
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Provide SMTP Authentication capability to CSM (Copy Services Manager)

I work at a financial institution and our Security Department has recently implemented a policy to block all unauthenticated SMTP which, of course, is affecting alerts via email from CSM. This forced us to utilized SNMP for alerting...which isn’t ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 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...
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 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.
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Add Filter to the Role Pair Panel

When working on larger CSM configurations with large number of copysets (10,000+), it is difficult to find specific volumes when looking in the Role Pair Details page. It would be very useful to have a Filter box to very quickly find certain volum...
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Enhanced Scheduled Task Interface

For users will multi-step Scheduled Tasks used for automation, it would be very helpful to provide an enhanced interface for viewing and managing those tasks. I would love the see an interface with the following capabilities: The base interface wo...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

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