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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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CSM support scheduled task for longer period

Scheduled task only support hourly, daily and weekly now, would like to extend the support to monthly and yearly.
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 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

Support Spectrum Virtualize Recovery host mappings via CLI/API

CSM supports host mapping management for SGC backup recovery via the GUI to simplify actions necessary to validate an SGC backup, for example as part of a Cyber Vault solution. A general recommendation for Cyber Vault solutions is to automate as m...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM To have options in GUI to export and import Web Certificates

Requesting there to be functionality within the CSM application in order to export and import the web certificates used by the CSM web GUI. I had raised the mentioned PMR to inquire about the process as it was not included in the documentation I c...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Options to disable Dual control for few sessions

We have enabled dual control for our CSM server, but there are some sessions which are managed by API or manual control. In those cases, having dual control makes it little difficult to implement since we need a 2nd ID to approve the activity. Wou...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

CSM To Include the System and Path for any Alert Message About Paths

Please include the system and the path in any email notifications about paths. Also these messages should be logged to the console as well as being sent in email.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

DB2 | Consistent Copy | CDM | Safeguarded Copy

DB2 is an IBM database that is critical to many buisnesses - recoveryability from an immutable copy following a cyber threat is key to a business surviving. IBM currently does not support DB2 in it's own cyber vault story.
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Not under consideration

CSM - add 'if then' functionality to a scheduled task

Client wants a scheduled task to be able to determine the active host and issue commands to the active host
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 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