IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

    Safeguarded Copy Automation for Data Validation, IPL, Data Validation and Customer Notification

    I would like to see automation added to CSM to move a SGC backup to Recovery volumes and then trigger an IPL for the Data Validation process that is vital to Ransomware protection. I also want CSM to monitor all of the started tasks from the IPL t...
    6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Automatic Recovery Enhancement for CSM Sessions After Temporary Switch Failures

    In our environment, temporary switch port/SAN issues frequently cause CSM replication sessions to move into a Severe state and suspend MM/GM pairs.Even after the switch issue is resolved, CSM does not automatically clear the error or recover the s...
    3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    CSM SGC backup count reporting

    Enhance CSM to provide comprehensive reporting and alerting for SGC backups, improving visibility into backup health and recoverability. This capability will help operations and support teams proactively monitor backup status and identify risks
    4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Automatic retrieval of the public SSL certificate for LDAP or z/OS connections.

    Manually retrieving the public SSL certificate from each server to import it into CSM during LDAP configuration or when adding a z/OS connection can be cumbersome. There are many applications that query the remote server themselves to retrieve the...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Task import/export feature

    It will be helpful to have the ability to export and import schedule tasks. This will facilitate the creation of schedules as well as the ability to copy them to different servers. Currently creating multiple, complex multi task schedule is time c...
    9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Run csmcli via scheduled task without external server.

    I want to get CSM/DS8000 logs when CSM task failed. Problem here is that the ESSNI logs for both CSM/DS8000 fills up so quickly. We have an option in CSM task to save it which is "Create a PE package if error occurs running the task". This will sa...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Port 9560 Connection - Configurable Keepalive or Heart beat in application.

    CSM currently appears to rely on a long-lived connection to port 9560 for High Availability. Certain enterprise firewalls remove idle TCP sessions after a set amount minutes, resulting in loss of connectivity and inability to query status from the...
    27 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Allow for Windows/Linux OS reimiaging without removing reinstallation and data restore

    Add support for installation on a mounted disk (not the OS disk) and then allowing you to reregister the product with the OS after the OS disk is reimaged without having to actually reinstall the product. Then you would just unmount, reimage, remo...
    29 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    CSM Heap Usage Monitoring

    In mixed storage environments where a single CSM instance manages multiple sessions, especially with SGC, administrators do not have real-time visibility into current Java heap utilization. As a result, there is no reliable way to determine whethe...
    4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Improve zOS host IP connection loss detection and failover behavior

    There have been incidents in the field showing the current design of CSM z/OS host IP connection loss detection and failover to redundant active host connection is significantly delayed to 15-20 minutes. This may happen especially when the connect...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

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