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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 1, 2023

CSM to Provide Capability to Preserve Data in a 5th Copy (Secondary) after Changing the Primary SRC in a 4-Site MM/GM Session

Currently, we are setting up to use the 3-Site GM/GC Session which helps us with maintaining the 3rd copy (LCP) and avoiding Full-Push exposure when region switching (PRESS) between Data Centers.  We would like to see if there was a way to provide this same coverage on the backend of a 4-site MM/GM environments?  Perhaps the introduction or management of a 5th site in a 4-Site MM/GM/GC scenario.  This session would need to allow or move the LCP (5th) site SRC between H2 and H4 (presumably the GC Targets in a 4-site environment).  If this is not possible, would an alternative be that we have a command option to start a copy session with a No Copy option "NOCP"?

Any thoughts on preserving the data between our Production and LCP environments would be valuable.  In the current 4-Site GDPS managed environment, external scripts written in-house have to be managed manually and written into JPMC PRESS processes to avoid a Full-Push to LCP.  It would be tremendously valuable to our push to replace GDPS processes with CSM processes if CSM had this advantage.

A similar Idea has been placed in the GDPS Queue as we need to figure a way to remediate internally written and managed code and scripts:                                                                               https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZGDPS-I-184

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Oct 4, 2023
    Delivered in the CSM 6.3.8 release. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/randy-blea1/2023/09/28/whats-new-in-ibm-copy-services-manager-6380
  • Guest
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    Jun 1, 2023
    Will need to look into how we might be able to do this cleanly in a 4 site session. With that said. You mention using No copy as an option. You can do this in CSM however we do not doc it do to the dangers of starting the pairs with no copy. You can reach out directly if you want to pursue that option in the meantime and we can provide those properties.