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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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    Add GM capability between sites 1&2 and 3&4 to 4 site replication enhanced solution

    Currently the 4 site replication enhanced solution allows a client to switch from MM to GC between sites 1&2 or between sites 3&4. Typically this functionality would be used if the MM replication was causing a significant temporary product...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    An error Icon should overlay the question mark

    In a CSM HA Configuration (Standby Server is configured) it is the case that if this server is down that a question mark is displayed at the top menu (e.g. at the “Storage” Menu bar”). So far so good.If now an outage happens (e.g. from one storage...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    The Menu ?DS8000 Paths? should include the Location column

    If you add a storage connection at the “Storage System” menu you are able to give the new storage system a “description” at the Location column. This is very helpful to distinguish the storage systems. It would be very helpful to display this colu...
    over 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...
    almost 2 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 ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    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.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Add Dynamic Volume Expansion capability

    Dynamic volume expansion requires many manual steps when the volume(s) to be expanded are in a copy services relationship. CSM has all the information necessary to facilitate this process for a client. My client requests that CSM handle the end to...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 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...
    about 7 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 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Add volume group filtering option to Add Copy Sets Wizard in addition to LSS

    We would like to use CSM for our IBM i, Linux, VIOS, and AIX volumes. Unlike the mainframe storage team, we do not use LSS to manage our disk. All of our disk activities are performed via volume group in the DS8000 GUI. The flash copy option has r...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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