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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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    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 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Improve CSMCLI framework to simplify scripting

    Currently the CSMCLI framework has some weird and inconsistent behavior how error messages and return codes are being returned to the caller. This makes customized scripting difficult because for each scripting platform a comprehensive CSMCLI wrap...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Add "StartGC to Site 3" command for GM Either Direction with Site 3 Global Copy session

    CSM knows which site is currently the GM Target site. It would be extremely convenient if there was a generic Start GC command that started the appropriate GC replication leg (H1->H3 or H2->H3) from the GM Target site to the Bunker site with...
    9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Support GC-GC cascaded start option in 3 site MT sessions

    When using CSM for migration scenarios in 3 site topologies, a typical approach is to migrate via PPRC Failover or HyperSwap from old MGM cascade to a new GC-GC cascade. Today, the new GC-GC cascade requires to use temporary 2 site MM sessions bei...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Dscli output file in code page IBM-1047 when running in z/OS environment

    I use dscli from Z/OS system and using Java batch procédure. When i execute the following commands : offloadfile -perfdata /tmp offloadfile -fcdata /tmp the resulting file is in code page iso8859-1 and not ibm-1047. So to interpret the file file i...
    9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    CSM ability for more than two CSM servers in configuration sharing a common database and staying in synch. Active/Active

    3. The ability two have more than two Servers actively sharing the same CSM database. As an Active/Active instead of an Active/Standby configuration. The ability to have more than two servers join the same CSM configuration and stay in Synch with ...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    All GM consistent groups freeze status

    Its better add the feature like alert which can be scheduled for data exposure at consistent group (session) level. Normally we can see freeze time when we run "lsrcconsistgrp" at SVC CLI.
    9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

    Use the logged on User ID from the CSM GUI for authority checking rather than the STC user from the CSM Server

    If an update is made from the (e.g.) portpairing.csv from the CSM Web Interface (Version 6.2.8) there is no security checking whether if this user has the necessary permission to update this file. The update will be with the STC User from the CSM ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 6 Not under 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...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Improve SVC/Virtualize FC session capabilities

    SVC/Virtualize FC sessions in CSM provide just basic capabilities for FC management. This limits users for building more complex FC solutions or provisioning capabilities. Especially when using Space Efficient volumes, or when cascaded / multi-tar...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

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