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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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CSM CSM/FCMGR should implemented support of ALL supported MSS

MSS 3 war introduced 5 year ago (with z13) Page 20 and 21: https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248260.pdf (Now we are migrating from z14 to z15) IBM Utilities / Programs have implemented MSS 3 support (without RFEs) I'll do RFE if this he...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Accuracy of Spectrum control summary overall storage usage , it didnt show sum up virtual capacity of SGC volumes

Spectrum Control is not accurate enought. DS8K business today is very often using the SGC Backup as majors tactics to protect against cyber threats. Would be very very valuable to have this storage capacity easy to be followed up from a simple GUI...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Support for non paged mechanism in IBM CSM Flash Copy Manager for z/OS (CSMFCM)

The CSMFCM does not have a non paged mechanism that can survive a freeze. If the page disks are in the configuration the CSMFCM itself get frozen and therefore could not issue the thaw. Therefore it falls on the hardware ELB for the thaw to occur.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Disable E-mail (and other) notifications temporarily

We are using a Notification alerting on CSM and it works well, however we would like to have a possibility of temporarily suppressing it when one does planned activity like increasing volume size (it requires breaking the mirroring, removing copy ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM Incremental Flashcopy Options

Global Mirror Either Direction w/ Two Site Practice. We have the incremental option switched on in the session properties for 'H1-I1 and H2-I2 Options'.This is to allow us to take a daily flashcopy to the H2 volumes at the remote site. A full back...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 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 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Need SNMPv3 support in CSM

My customer is moving his monitoring tool to SNMPv3 and he would like to monitor CSM also with SNMPv3 so he's requesting CSM to support SNMPv3.
about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Adding Support for Multi Target PPRC in CSM for Hitachi VSP5000 Systems

We use in our Datacenter for migration last year multi target concept to migrate our old vsp to new one and use Hittachi TrueCopy and CSM to do that. We see that also Multitarget PPRC are working as expectetd but we missed the complete support of ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Adjust CSM panel scroll windows with Browser window size and support filters

There are a couple of panels in CSM GUI which do not adjust their scroll list window size to the browser window size. This results in small CSM scroll windows which may contain very long lists although there is plenty of white space in the browser...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to restart the CSM service from the GUI or API

In some companies the CSM administrator does not have administrative control of the servers or instances that it runs on. There are times when a restart of the CSM service is required (certificate updates, server changes, etc). Being able to resta...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration