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Status Is a defect
Workspace IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 10, 2023

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IBM CSM API Should Show all DS8 Session/LSS/SSID In Hexadecimal to Correctly Reflect The Values on the Hardware

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We recently encountered a discrepancy in our API reporting from CSM where the Session ID was not matching what is in the GUI (and on the actual DS8 hardware), and it turned out that from the CSM/web/sessions URI, all of the session/LSS/SSID values are incorrectly in decimal, and from the CSM/web/sessions/SESSION_NAME URI, those some ones are in decimal but it does add a couple other entries which are correctly in hex.

This is misleading to the user, as unless they already are familiar with what are the specific session ID's for each session, or notice that some of the session information returned from CSM is impossible since it is higher than 'FF', they may never realize that CSM is not providing what they think it is.


Here are some examples below for the information for the same session, from the two URIs and what needs to be corrected.


## Output from CSM/web/session ##

"sessionNumber": 127 This should be "0x7f"

"masterLss": 127 This should be "0x7f"

"masterSsid": 65407 This should be "ff7f"


## Output from CSM/web/sessions/SESSION_NAME ##

"sequences"/"progress"/"masterLSS": "DS8000:2107.HXXY1:LSS:7F" This is correct

"sequences"/"progress"/"sessionID": "0x7f" This is correct

"sessionprogress"/"gmStatus"/"masterLss": 127, This should be "0x7f"

"sessionprogress"/"gmStatus"/"sessionNumber": 127 This should be "0x7f"

"sessionprogress"/"gmStatus"/"masterSsid": 65407 This should be "ff7f"

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 14, 2023
    Should add. Will need to make this change as a new variable for each of those entries, to avoid breaking any callers that take the decimal number today already and convert it to hex.

    New values will be masterSsidHex, masterLssHex, sessionNumberHex. The older decimal values will still display.
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 14, 2023
    Would consider this a defect. Will fix this in the CSM 6.3.9 release.

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