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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 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 ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Include "Remove Session" command under dual control to secure LCP!!!

To secure our LCP backup environment
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Display Standby Synchronization Progress

In larger environments, it can take some time for the Active server to synchronize the Standby and progress to the Synchronized state. Currently there is no way to know how much progress has been made or how soon the servers will become Synchroniz...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

New Synchronize and Swap command related to Active and Standby Servers

Create a new command that would combine the steps to synchronize a Standby server and then automatically swap the Active and Standby servers once the initialize synchronize completes. For larger environments where server synchronization takes an e...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

New Swap Active/Standby command that completes a Takeover and immediately restores synchronization from the new Active and Standby servers

In order to swap the Active and Standby servers, current csm functionality requires the following steps: 1. Takeover command issued to the Standby - wait for the Standby (new Active) to complete its startup processing. 2. Set Standby issued to the...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Under review

One authentication for a group of Dual Operator Notifications actions, such as disabling multiple scheduled tasks

Currently we have 100+ scheduled tasks for CSM SGC backups. As we have Dual Operator enabled, this currently creates a Notification for each task. Would it be possible to group this type of action together to Approve as currently the overhead is s...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

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