Role pair status and progress

In a session, a role pair is the association of two volume roles that take part in a copy relationship. Copy Services Manager provides detailed role pair status and progress messages for sessions.

The role pair status and progress messages are updated to provide a message that indicates what the session is doing at the time. By hovering over a progress bar, you can see specific information about the action that is running on the session. Some status messages might include an estimated time-to-completion for the action in hours and minutes.

Role pair status is not provided for the FlashSystem/IBM Spectrum® Accelerate Snapshot sessions because role pairs are not used for these sessions.

The status messages are displayed in the Session Details and Role Pair Details page.

Table 1. Detailed status messages for Participating and Non-Participating role pairs
Supported session type Status message
  • FlashCopy®
  • Metro Mirror
  • Global Copy
  • Global Mirror
Starting role_pair_name relationships on the hardware
  • Metro Mirror
  • Global Mirror
Waiting for all pairs in the role pair role_pair_name to reach state of state
  • FlashCopy
  • Metro Mirror
  • Global Copy
  • Global Mirror
Terminating all pairs in role pair role_pair_name
  • FlashCopy
  • Metro Mirror
  • Global Mirror
Recovering all pairs in role pair role_pair_name
  • Metro Mirror
  • Global Copy
  • Global Mirror
Suspending all pairs in role pair role_pair_name
  • FlashCopy
Background copy is running for role pair role_pair_name
  • Global Copy
Waiting for all pairs in role pair role_pair_name to become consistent
  • Global Copy
Waiting for all pairs in role pairs role_pair_name to complete the initial copy
  • FlashCopy
Waiting for all pairs in role pairs role_pair_name to complete FRR
  • Global Mirror
Waiting for all pairs in role pairs role_pair_name to join the Global Mirror session
Table 2. Detailed status messages for Participating and Non-Participating role pairs
Supported session type Status message
  • FlashCopy
  • Metro Mirror
  • Global Copy
  • Global Mirror
Starting role_pair_name relationships on the hardware
  • Metro Mirror
  • Global Mirror
Waiting for all pairs in the role pair role_pair_name to reach state of state
  • FlashCopy
  • Metro Mirror
  • Global Copy
  • Global Mirror
Terminating all pairs in role pair role_pair_name
  • FlashCopy
  • Metro Mirror
  • Global Mirror
Recovering all pairs in role pair role_pair_name
  • Metro Mirror
  • Global Copy
  • Global Mirror
Suspending all pairs in role pair role_pair_name
  • FlashCopy
Background copy is running for role pair role_pair_name
  • Global Copy
Waiting for all pairs in role pair role_pair_name to become consistent
  • Global Copy
Waiting for all pairs in role pairs role_pair_name to complete the initial copy
  • FlashCopy
Waiting for all pairs in role pairs role_pair_name to complete FRR
  • Global Mirror
Waiting for all pairs in role pairs role_pair_name to join the Global Mirror session
  • Safeguarded Copy
The hardware is preparing to create a backup for all role volumes.