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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

    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...
    over 1 year 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.
    over 3 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.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

    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...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    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...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Is a defect

    Allow Multi-Target PPRC via CSM for HDS Controllers

    We use Hitachi storage controllers with CSM as data mirroring software. In the case of a 3-sided controller migration, it is necessary to activate multitarget pprc. However, CSM currently does not allow this for storage controllers from other manu...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Not under consideration

    Site locations to inherit the location of the devices

    Have sessions inherit the site locations that are configured for the devices that are involved in the session. Currently the site locations are custom fields that could be set to any text. You can select any location even ones that don't match the...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future 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...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    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...
    almost 3 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.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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