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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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    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...
    4 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Automated ODD generation in CSM, along with periodic cleanup based on a retention policy to prevent storage overrun

    Background: I recently met with the Storage Infrastructure Head of a large Indian bank. During the discussion, the customer specifically asked whether DS8000 supports automatic ODD generation based on predefined thresholds or triggers at the time ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Safeguarded Snapshots in IBM Copy Services Manager for SV Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability

    Please add native support in IBM Copy Services Manager to create safeguarded snapshots for Storage Virtualize Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability. Thank you for considering this enhancement! Virgil Balan Storage Administrat...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 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...
    12 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 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....
    12 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Storage Nickname Column in the Storage Panel for DS8000

    For larger clients that have numerous DS8000s (or for any storage systems, I guess), it would be very helpful if CSM users could specify a customizable "nickname" for each DS8000 which would show up as another column in the storage panel. It would...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    IBM CSM LDAP Configuration to Improve Handling of Recursive Search Directive

    Many companies today utilize nested LDAP groups for privileges, which configuration today is only possible to support in CSM by manually adding the "recursiveSearch=true" directive into the XML in the Advanced tab of LDAP Configuration. If any inf...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    New Flash 4th Site command in 4 Site Replication Enhanced session

    It is requested to provide a new command "Flash 4th Site" that would provide similar functionality to the "Flash 3rd Site" command. We would request that the 4 Site session, knowing the current 4th site, would carry out all of the steps required t...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Integrate SGC Hold and Release Commands into 4 Site Replication Enhanced session

    The recently delivered SGC Hold and Preserve Backups command and the SGC Release Backup Expiration command are extremely useful for certain clients. In a 4 site environment, the Scheduled Task to automate this process must either me modified upon ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Add Filter to the Role Pair Panel

    When working on larger CSM configurations with large number of copysets (10,000+), it is difficult to find specific volumes when looking in the Role Pair Details page. It would be very useful to have a Filter box to very quickly find certain volum...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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