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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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IBM CSM API Should Show all DS8 Session/LSS/SSID In Hexadecimal to Correctly Reflect The Values on the Hardware

We recently encountered a discrepancy in our API reporting from CSM where the Session ID was not matching what is in the GUI (and on the actual DS8 hardware), and it turned out that from the CSM/web/sessions URI, all of the session/LSS/SSID values...
6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Is a defect

Check the GM subordinate even if there are no copyset in it.

Currently CSM only queries for copysets that are actively participating in a session. If we have a session with a subordinate with no more copysets on the subordinate, CSM doesn't check the state of the subordinate. Adding a check of the subordina...
8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

use CSM to create volumes and replication from end to end

CSM has the knowledge of the box and replication. We could imagine defining policy in CSM with replication type etc... (MM, MGM ...) and when we define new volumes, let CSM create LVOLS on all DS8k and create replication link defined in the policy...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Allow user to display "volume full name" and "volume short name" at his conveniance using existing table twistie

In huges banking Z/os csm implamentation, we can deal with many DS8000 having each more than 100 000 volumes. Having this ability will avoid fingerchecks when usin CSM GUI to perform troubleshooting tasks when things are not work as expected.
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Session recovery via query

CSM is currently designed to stop monitoring underlying replication in an event where certain types of communication failures occur with a subsystem (say after panic/warmstart). It's designed this way to not inadvertently monitor relationships tha...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

z/VM support on CSM

Currently z/VM support is managed only via GDPS using xDR proxies (SA MP). We are running lot of applications on zVM but the binaries for z/Linux on IBM disk is minimal and the application data is from a different storage hardware and only for the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

allow FCM to more granularly control message output

We need the ability to suppress the message IWNRF015I when needed.The PDEBUG variable value currently has non effect on the setting of "show_dups" variable and this leads to hundreds of unwanted messages on the screen during the SEL-SOURCE and the...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM Option to Send Alert When Session Returns to Normal Status

We would like the option to have CSM send an alert when sessions return to a Normal status after they have gone to a Warning or Critical status.
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Implementation from the authenticated way to send EMails from CSM

At the moment CSM is not ready to use an authenticated way to send Mails. CSM should implement this possibility at their GUI to use an User + password for their mail Notifications.
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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 ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration