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Status Is a defect
Workspace IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 4, 2022

RELATED IDEAS

Refresh States function should function when devices are in severe status

During a recent issue where CSM lost access to the underlying DASD (due to a warmstart), it marked some of the replicated devices in a Severe state. That state never changed, even after issuing a 'Refresh States' command. You can submit a START or STARTGC to correct this issue, but I would like to see the refresh states function work instead.

Idea priority Medium
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    |     Nov 4, 2022
    This sounds like a defect vs. an RFE. The only time CSM won't "refresh" the state based off the hardware state, should be if the pairs are in a Defined state. I know there's a known issue where the DS8000 queries may return to CSM that the pairs no longer exist, which causes the pairs to go Defined which has been seen during warm starts. If this is what you hit that needs to be pursued as a defect against the DS8000 ESSNI component.

    CSM does not change pairs from Defined to active. This is because we do not want to accidentally assimilate reltionships without explicit action by a customer. As the refresh states runs the same code as a normal state check, this could lead to issues in scenarios where customers have a CSM session setup but do not want it managing the hw yet or at all. This is why we require and explicit start command. The start command shouldn't cause a full copy of the data, but it officially tells CSM that you wish to manage those pairs and thus allows the assimilation.

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