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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

CLI option to view TB managed by CSM

On CSM v6.3, on the overview page, it will show below details:Remote copy source volumes (not cascaded): 62 ( 411.9 GiB )FlashCopy source volumes: 78 ( 1.1 TiB )Volumes protected by Safeguarded Copy: 0 ( 0.0 KiB )Volumes used as targets: 141 ( 2.6...
over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

CSM Operator should have access to Scheduled tasks

Most of the activities, we have created Scheduled tasks for Operators to start/stop whenever the need arises. Like for DRs, we have 3 sessions which are dependent on each other and we created scheduled tasks. But current CSM Operator role cannot p...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Copy Services Manager Needs a 'run once' scheduling option

CSM v6.2.8 currently provides the following scheduling options:1. Running a task at an interval of 0.5-144 hoursor 2. Running a task at a set time on any number of days each weekor3. No Schedule I wish to setup a task, pick a 4th option 'run once'...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Reconnect message in the console to match the disconnect message

Currently, CSM seems to only show a message when it is disconnected from a DS8K storage system but not when it subsequently reconnects. IWNH1044E Nov 5, 2025, 9:57:30 PM The Replication Manager is disconnected from a cluster for the hardware devic...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Display actions for a scheduled task

To investigate what is done by a scheduled task, i need to modify this task. For me it should be great to have an action button to display actions for a scheduled task without tthe need to select the modify action for displaying actions. Also if i...
8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Ability to Start a Scheduled Task at a certain Step

For users with Scheduled Tasks comprised of multiple actions, it would be very helpful to provide the capability to restart a task after a task failure. The restart would skip the actions that were successfully completed thus greatly simplifying e...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Ability to View Scheduled Task

Currently it is not possible to view a CSM Scheduled Task. The only option to view the details and the Actions that a Task will execute is by issuing the Modify command and then cancelling before updating anything. This is less than ideal from a s...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Pause SGC Backups per a Defined Schedule

This idea builds upon CSM-I-204. Beyond the basic capability for CSM temporarily pause SGC Backups, if CSM could accept an input file that contained a schedule of the year's holidays (and weekends) for which the client wants to pause SGC processin...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

RPO Error Alerts on Cascaded GM leg for 4 Site Replication Enhanced Session

Currently, the RPO threshold alerts are suppressed by CSM on the Cascaded GM leg. We would like the Error level to be externalized even when the GM leg is a cascaded leg. In the case where this leg is being used for SGC, the CSM backups will not b...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

View by User Defined Group

Would like to have a View By User Group option under Sessions. When having multiple sessions the User Defined Group option is great for sorting. However, being able to roll them up under the User Groups (like with view by Volume Group) would make ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

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