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    Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

    An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
    9 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

    Enable GDPS SSC to use RACF keyrings

    Currently Managing a GDPS SSC system requires the use of gskkyman to create, load and maintain the needed certificates for the HMC access in a user defined z/OS unix filesystem. This IDEA is to request that support for RACF keyrings be added as an...
    16 days ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

    Dynamically switch between Global Mirror and Metro Mirror

    We have two remote data centers, separated 50km, with 2 Z CECs on each. We have 3 DASD copies, 2 on one DC, and 1 in the other. The key point is the GDPS MM3site Dual Leg between both data centers. During normal conditions, our production workload...
    26 days ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

    z/OS guest under z/VM should hyperswap the same as anything else under z/VM; zLinux for example

    In the current implementation with z/OS guests not hyperswapping with z/VM limits the production use of z/OS guests. Removing this limitation would extend and enhance z/VM.
    26 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

    Partial restore from LCP safeguarded copy

    LCP safeguarded copy creates consistent copies of group of disks. It can only restore the whole set, while it would potentially be interesting to restore only a subset of these disks.
    about 1 month ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

    Add GDPS health check to validate UCB mod type equivalency for each mirror copy and journals

    Mod type mismatches can cause failures during site swap situations, resulting in potential outages and RPO/RTO impacts.
    about 2 months ago in GDPS 2 Under review

    GDPS GSM to support 2 site Metro Mirror

    As we are looking at a configuration that has Mainframe and Open system disks, we would need to have a GDPS 2 site Metro Mirror with Mainframe and Open disks in one consistency group, in particular for the hyperswap aspect. However, our target con...
    about 2 months ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

    Backup and restore of GDPS configuration

    Today GDPSMNT can be used to backup and restore. It would make more sense to have a built in interface to take backup and restore interactively or have the possibility to use batch or similar on different point in time.
    about 2 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

    Backup GDPS data that is saved in the NetView save/restore database.

    Today, GDPSMNT exists in GDPS Metro and can be used to export and import user-specified GDPS data that is saved in the NetView save/restore database (that is, the DSISVRT dataset). We would like the same tool (or similar) in GDPS Global so we can ...
    about 2 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

    recover GM should indicate date and time for the data

    After a stop, when we do a RECOVER GM, we do not know the date and time of the recover. We should find somewhere the date and time of the last good consistency point. This will probably be the first thing ask by management in case of real DR.
    about 2 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

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