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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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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...
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

When a PPRC session is being built within CSM, if the source and target SSIDs match, there should be a warning or a message that clearly states why this is a problem.

We had a configuration error in our PPRC target where the SSID of the target was the same is the primary. CSM allowed us to create the copyset even though the SSIDs were not unique.
11 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Not under 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...
3 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) should be differentiate between real HOST-Connections issues vs. a planned shut down from one or more HOST systems.

Starting with CSM 6.3.10 IBM has introduced his Multi Sysplex Support (feature 87578b). With this feature are several resilience topics addressed to make the tool less prone to incorrect operation. One decision that has been made, for example, is ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

add option for the tgtread status

We are using CSM on open system to manage zOS LPAR. When we create replication, the option tgtread is at yes with CSM, which is not compatible with zOS. Can you add a checkbox to manage this option?
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 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.
8 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

Include "Remove Session" command under dual control to secure LCP!!!

To secure our LCP backup environment
15 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Improve CSMCLI scripting by enabling an echo and echoprefix

In DSCLI, you can define echo on/off and you can set an echoprefix. In CSMCLI, this is still not available. When running CSMCLI in script mode, you see in the output dataset only the command response, but not command itself and you see only the IP...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

One authentication for a group of Dual Operator Notifications actions, such as disabling multiple scheduled tasks

Currently we have 100+ scheduled tasks for CSM SGC backups. As we have Dual Operator enabled, this currently creates a Notification for each task. Would it be possible to group this type of action together to Approve as currently the overhead is s...
9 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

CSM Server restart & ESSNI restart confirmation in CSM

Following a CSM Server restart, or ESSNI restart through the hardware management console, there should be an indication/event in the logs that that happened. Currently, there is no way to verify within CSM, that a restart of either of these compon...
29 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

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