IBM Copy Services Manager V6.1.1 delivers replication management with simplified and automated replication tasks

IBM United States Software Announcement 216-176
March 22, 2016

Table of contents

	Overview		Technical information
	Key prerequisites		Ordering information
	Planned availability date		Terms and conditions
	Description		Prices
	Program number		Order now
	Publications

(Corrected on July 10, 2017)

The Resource Value Unit section and the information under the Terabyte heading in the Ordering information section have been updated.

At a glance

IBM® Copy Services Manager is a replication management solution based on Tivoli® Productivity Center (TPC) technology that delivers central control of your replication environment while helping to simplify and automate complex replication tasks. Using Copy Services Manager, you can coordinate copy services on a variety of IBM Storage Systems, including DS8000®, SVC, Storwize® V7000, and XIV®. You can help prevent errors and increase system continuity using source and target volume matching, site awareness, disaster recovery testing, and standby management. Copy Services Manager improves upon the replication functionality offered in TPC:

Stand-alone installation for replication management
Multi-target support for Metro Mirror and Global Mirror with practice capability
Support for over 200 Global Mirror sessions
Supports purchase for open systems
HyperSwap® enabled for the Multi-target Metro Mirror/Global Mirror sessions
Support for DS8000 for LDAP
Migration support for old storage systems using multi-target
PowerHA® support

Overview

IBM Copy Services Manager offers all of the great the replication management features of TPC with improved functionality.

Copy Services Manager delivers support for the advanced copy services capabilities on the DS8000, in addition to the support for SAN Volume Controller, Storwize V7000, and XIV. This includes automating administration and configuration of these services, operational control (starting, suspending, resuming) of copy services tasks, and monitoring and managing the copy services sessions.

Copy Services Manager supports Metro Mirror, FlashCopy®, and Global Mirror on the DS8000 and SAN Volume hardware platforms. Advanced disaster recovery functions are also supported with failover/failback (planned and unplanned) from a primary site to a disaster recovery site. Copy Services Manager also can monitor the performance of the copy services that provide a measurement of the amount of replication and the amount of time that is required to complete the replication operations. Copy Services Manager also supports multi-target for both Metro Mirror and Global mirror, with practice capability.

By using Copy Services Manager on IBM DS storage devices, tasks that took up to five steps can be accomplished in just one. The practice session in Copy Services Manager enables you to test your disaster recovery environment without interfering with daily operations. This means you can run a practice session before you perform the actual action. Copy Services Manager also improved functionality to support over 200 Global Mirror sessions to help your data mining efforts.

Key prerequisites

None

Planned availability date

March 24, 2016: Electronic download

Description

IBM Copy Services Manager is a replication management solution based on TPC replication technology that delivers central control of your replication environment using simplified and automated complex replication tasks. Using Copy Services Manager, you can coordinate copy services on IBM Storage including DS8000, SVC, Storwize V7000, and XIV. You can also help prevent errors and increase system continuity using source and target volume matching, site awareness, disaster recovery testing, and standby management. Copy Services Manager improves upon the functionality offered in TPC-R with multi-target support for Metro Mirror and Global Mirror with practice capability and support for over 200 Global Mirror sessions.

Copy Services Manager is simple to use, reduces the number of steps required for many copy services management activities, and has many added benefits over other replication methods. Commands are efficient and easy to understand. An active and a standby server can be set up to enable server redundancy. You can define default port pairings for logical paths on DS8000 Storage Systems. Progress reports of the copies within the sessions are available within reports. You can help ensure visibility by setting up recovery point objective (RPO) warnings and severe threshold alerts. The RPO data can be exported in CSV format for easy analysis.

Safety features are built-in with Copy Services Manager. This includes prompts or warnings before an action is executed, defined user roles to help prevent unapproved actions, volume protection capability, and site awareness to help prevent incorrect hardware relationships.

Copy Services Manager is well-integrated with z Systems™ even when running on a distributed systems server. The server function runs in a z/OS® address space. You can use FICON® for FICON-attached volumes without a TCP/IP connection when the system mover is present (TCP/IP can be used for non-FICON attached volumes). Hardened freeze support ensures consistency can be maintained for a Metro Mirror session even when there is loss of access to the Copy Services Manager server. The z Systems storage administrator can monitor both mainframe (ECKD™) DASD volumes and non-mainframe (FBA) disk volumes.

Copy Services Manager provides the ability to manage HyperSwap, Metro Mirror with HyperSwap, and Metro Global Mirror with HyperSwap when all primary and secondary devices are defined to z Systems with available paths. HyperSwap provides continuous availability by handling both planned and unplanned automatic swapping of I/O requests from the primary to secondary site for Metro Mirror pairs. Operator interaction is not required making this nondisruptive to the application. Basic is an entitled version of Copy Services Manager on z Systems for HyperSwap continuous availability support without disaster recovery capabilities. Metro Mirror with HyperSwap and Metro Global Mirror with HyperSwap support adds in disaster recovery capabilities along with the high availability of HyperSwap in both two- and three-site solutions. Once Copy Services Manager loads the configuration, swap by command or event can be managed directly from z Systems. The same IOS component handles the actual swap as with IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex™ (GDPS®). This HyperSwap is coordinated across the sysplex and can also be managed through Copy Services Manager from a remote server.

By using Copy Services Manager for your copy services management, you can help reduce your workload by using less commands and improve safety through pre-command execution warnings and user roles. The integration of Copy Services Manager with z systems and support for metro Mirror, Global Mirror, and HyperSwap help ensure your replication is managed in a single place and in an efficient manner.

Accessibility by people with disabilities

A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) containing details on accessibility compliance can be found on the IBM Accessibility website.

Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act

IBM Copy Services Manager V6.1.1 is capable as of March 24, 2016, when used in accordance with IBM's associated documentation, of satisfying the applicable requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, provided that any assistive technology used with the product properly interoperates with it. A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) can be found on the IBM Accessibility website.

Reference information

For complete information about IBM Copy Services Manager for z Systems™, refer to Software Announcement 215-529, dated December 8, 2015.

Program number

Program number	VRM	Program name
5725-Z54	6.1.1	IBM Copy Services Manager

Offering Information

Product information is available on the IBM Offering Information website.

More information is also available on the Passport Advantage® and Passport Advantage Express® website.

Publications

The following publications can be ordered from the IBM Publications Center:

Title	Order number
IBM Copy Services Manager User's Guide Version 6.1.1	SC27-8542
IBM Copy Services Manager Installation and Configuration Guide Version 6.1 .1	SC27-8543

The Publications Center is a worldwide central repository for IBM product publications and marketing material with a catalog of 70,000 items. Extensive search facilities are provided. A large number of publications are available online in various file formats, and they can all be downloaded by all countries.

Services

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Technical information

Specified operating environment

Hardware requirements

Product must be installed on a supported server as described in the IBM Copy Services Manager Installation and Configuration Guide Version 6.1.1.

Software requirements

No prerequisites or corequisites.

The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a readme file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter. Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language.

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You can also access the IBM Support Portal page and the online Service requests and PMRs tool for more support.

Planning information

Packaging

This offering is delivered as electronic download from Passport Advantage. There is no physical media.

This program, when downloaded from a website, contains the applicable IBM license agreement and License Information, if appropriate, and will be presented for acceptance at the time of installation of the program. For future reference, the license and License Information will be stored in a directory named so as to include the word license .

Direct customer support

Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) is included with licenses purchased through Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express. Product upgrades and technical support are provided by the Software Subscription and Support (Software Maintenance) offering as described in the Agreements. Product upgrades provide the latest versions and releases to entitled software, and technical support provides voice and electronic access to IBM support organizations, worldwide.

IBM includes one year of Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) with each program license acquired. The initial period of Software Subscription and Support (Software Maintenance) can be extended by the purchase of a renewal option, if available.

Security, auditability, and control

IBM Copy Services Manager V6.1.1 uses the security and auditability features of the host hardware.

The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.

Ordering information

Product Group: IBM Systems

Product: IBM Copy Services Manager version 6.1.1 (5725-Z54)

Product Category: IBM Copy Services Manager

Ordering information for Passport Advantage

Passport Advantage (PPA) allows greater flexibility to help customers manage their software licenses and Subscription and Support renewals. Customers can now have a common anniversary date for Subscription and Support renewals for all IBM software, under a PPA agreement, including IBM Storage software. The anniversary date, established at the order ship date for the initial product acquisition, will remain unchanged while their Passport Advantage or Passport Advantage Express agreement remains in effect.

The quantity to be specified for the Passport Advantage part numbers in the following table is per Resource Value Unit.

Resource Value Unit (RVU)

RVU is a unit of measure by which the program can be licensed. RVU Proofs of Entitlement are based on the number of units of a specific resource used or managed by the program. Licensee must obtain sufficient entitlements for the number of RVUs required for licensee's environment for the specific resources as specified in the program specific table. RVU entitlements are specific to the program and the type of resource and may not be exchanged, interchanged, or aggregated with RVU entitlements of another program or resource.

The Resource for the purpose of RVU calculation for Copy Services Manager is Terabyte. A Terabyte is 10 to the 12th power bytes. Licensee must obtain sufficient entitlements to cover the total number of Terabytes of source data managed by the Program.

Resource Value Unit Conversion table:

From 1 to 12 Resources, 1.00 RVU per Resource

From 13 to 32 Resources, 12 RVUs plus 0.84 RVUs per Resource above 12

From 33 to 64 Resources, 28.8 RVUs plus 0.61 RVUs per Resource above 32

From 65 to 100 Resources, 48.32 RVUs plus 0.46 RVUs per Resource above 64

From 101 to 250 Resources, 64.88 RVUs plus 0.38 RVUs per Resource above 100

For more than 250 Resources, 121.88 RVUs plus 0.30 RVUs per Resource above 250

To order for Passport Advantage, specify the desired part number and quantity.

Program name: IBM Copy Services Manager version 6.1.1 (5725-Z54)

Description	Part number
IBM Copy Services Manager Resource Value Units Lic + SW S&S 12 Mo	D1M9SLL
IBM Copy Services Manager Resource Value Units Annual SW S&S Rnwl	E0MK5LL
IBM Copy Services Manager Resource Value Units SW S&S Reinstate 12 Mo	D1M9TLL
IBM Copy Services Manager Resource Value Units MONTHLY LICENSE	D1M9MLL

IBM Copy Services Manager Resource Value Units for Linux™ on z Systems Lic + SW S&S 12 Mo	D1M9ULL
IBM Copy Services Manager Resource Value Units for Linux on z Systems Annual SW S&S Rnwl	E0MK6LL
IBM Copy Services Manager Resource Value Units for Linux on z Systems SW S&S Reinstate 12 Mo	D1M9VLL
IBM Copy Services Manager Resource Value Units for Linux on z Systems MONTHLY LICENSE	D1M9NLL

The products in the above tables are also available via web download from Passport Advantage.

Charge metric

Program name	PID number	Charge metric
IBM Copy Services Manager	5725-Z54	PA per Resource Value Units

Terabyte

Terabyte is a unit of measure by which the Program can be licensed. A Terabyte is 10 to the 12th power bytes. Licensee must obtain an entitlement for each Terabyte of storage available to the Program.

Resource Value Unit (RVU)

VUE027A

From 1 to 12 (Resources/Users), 1.00 (RVU/UVU) per (Resource/User)

From 13 to 32 (Resources/Users), 12 (RVUs/UVUs) plus 0.84 (RVUs/UVUs) per (Resource/User) above 12

From 33 to 64 (Resources/Users), 28.8 (RVUs/UVUs) plus 0.61 (RVUs/UVUs) per (Resource/User) above 32

From 65 to 100 (Resources/Users), 48.32 (RVUs/UVUs) plus 0.46 (RVUs/UVUs) per (Resource/User) above 64

From 101 to 250 (Resources/Users), 64.88 (RVUs/UVUs) plus 0.38 (RVUs/UVUs) per (Resource/User) above 100

For more than 250 (Resources/Users), 121.88 (RVUs/UVUs) plus 0.30 (RVUs/UVUs) per (Resource/User) above 250

Terms and conditions

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Licensing

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This software license includes Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance).

Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance

Licensing

IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement including the License Information document and Proof of Entitlement (PoE) govern your use of IBM Copy Services Manager. IBM International Program License Agreement including the License Information document and Proof of Entitlement (PoE) govern your use of IBM Copy Services Manager for z. PoEs are required for all authorized use Part number products only, offered outside of Passport Advantage where applicable, are license only and do not include Software.

The IBM Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance (Z125-6011) applies for Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) and does not require customer signatures.

License Information number

L-TANE-A6XV6H

See the License Information documents page on the IBM Software License Agreement website for more information.

Limited warranty applies

Yes

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Volume orders (IVO)

Passport Advantage applies

Yes, information is available on the Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express website.

Software Subscription and Support applies

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System i Software Maintenance applies

Variable charges apply

Educational allowance available

Not applicable.

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