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TSM for Sharepoint

CSM Heap Usage Monitoring

In mixed storage environments where a single CSM instance manages multiple sessions, especially with SGC, administrators do not have real-time visibility into current Java heap utilization. As a result, there is no reliable way to determine whethe...
4 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Segregate user account management function into a dedicated account and have the option to remove user account management from general privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor.

Providing a user management only account and restricting user management from other privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor. The aim it to segregate user account management role from that of general administrator role as part of se...
11 days ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library Future consideration

Segregate user account management function into a dedicated account and have the option to remove user account management from general privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor.

Providing a user management only account and restricting user management from other privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor. The aim it to segregate user account management role from that of general administrator role as part of se...
11 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Allow MFA authentication for the accounts in the TS7770 MI and TSSC.

Allow MFA authentication for the accounts in the TS7770 MI and TSSC. We would require MFA enabled for the accounts in the TS7770 MI and TSSC for security.
13 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Better representation of a "Migration" type session state in CSM

Migration type sessions in CSM are designed to run replications in async mode (Global Copy) only. When you start a migration type session, the replications start in the GC mode and the session is in the "Preparing" state and it has a status of "Wa...
16 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Improve DS8 Communications Certificate Renewal Process

The current Communication Certificate renewal process is lengthy and cumbersome, and as the industry is moving over the next few years to require rotating certificates every 47 days vs just once a year, improving existing workflows as much as poss...
24 days ago in IBM DS8000 Future consideration

IBM TS4500 Tape Library with FIPS 140-3 Support

Dear IBM Team, We need your help & support to enable the FIPS 140-3 support with TS4500 + LTO9 + GLKM. Thanks & Regards
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Comment Run External Script Action

in a CSM task may be many run external scripts commands and currently the only action description is generated automatically as being "Run an external command on server xx.xx.xx.xx". This is not enough to understand what does exactly each run exte...
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Integration support for ARCOS/ARCON Privileged Access Management (PAM) for Copy Service manager (CSM) tool

ICICI bank has 90+ IBM Storage arrays being managed by three IBM tools - Spectrum Control (TPC), Storage Insights (SI) and Copy Service manager (CSM). These should integrate with ARCOS for obtaining the password to access/work with storage arrays....
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Safeguarded Copy Automation for Data Validation, IPL, Data Validation and Customer Notification

I would like to see automation added to CSM to move a SGC backup to Recovery volumes and then trigger an IPL for the Data Validation process that is vital to Ransomware protection. I also want CSM to monitor all of the started tasks from the IPL t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

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