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add affected storage system / path for the message IWNR1963W

The message IWNR1963W is: One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed. Sometime there are micro network issue that makes the path have a punctual error. As we have several storage system in ou...
1 day 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?
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Support for the recognition of cascaded FlashCopy volumes

If a target volume of an existing FlashCopy relationship is used with FCM as source volumes (Cascaded FlashCopy), the FlashCopy relationship is established, but is not displayed in the report as an existing FlashCopy relationship. Even a Verfiy wi...
7 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Prevent TERMINATE of practice disks if a volume is online

In a session with practice disks, can you add an option to prevent TERMINATE if at least one of the practice disks is online please ?
28 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

allow a time offset in the passticket generation

Necessary if CSM is managing across time zones
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

ESEsizer - Enhance error handling conditions around communication timeouts caused by network drops

It would seem that the ESEsizer tool requires network connectivity for a long duration when collecting stats from the DS8900. Unfortunately, when there are network dropouts - the whole ESEsizer session is ruined, and you need to start again - whic...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

REST-API request for managing certificates

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Encryption on Metro/Global Mirror Link (FCP/PPRC)

It is currently an audit exposure if data is encrypted only at a rest. Clients are required to encrypt data in all physical media where the data transits and is stored, from the CPU to disk, and also from primary copy to all other copies where it ...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

More email options from Operations Center such as To, CC and BCC

Currently Operations Center is sending emails thru the BCC option and no way to make it send using the To or CC email options. It is very helpful in a colaborative environment to know where these emails go and who should be contacted so BCC will s...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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