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Clearly report the exact TIMESTAMP of the data consistent on disk B.RS1 when performing a 'GDASD=MGMPROD RECOVER'.

If I am not mistaken, when a RECOVER is performed on disk B.RS1 from the KR, the process carries out a Fast Reverse Restore from the GMFC to B.RS1 and then re-establishes it. Therefore, the TIMESTAMP that the GMFC might provide for the last consis...
2 months ago in GDPS Future consideration

Parallel execution of script for stopping LPARs and IPL in abnormal location without waiting the stop of all lpars

Hello, during our site switch yearly test, customer asked us to stop multiple lpars at the same time, and as soon as one LPAR of this wave has stopped, it should be IPL in its abnormal location even before the other lpars have stopped. In our mind...
3 months ago in GDPS Future consideration

Support for Bi-Directional Global Mirror and LCP.

We are currently a 2SITE GDPS GM customer and have external GDPS LCP to manage SafeGuarded Copy. We are looking to reduce our control LPAR count as well as take advantage of the benefits of Bi-Directional GM to manage our session and region switch...
3 months ago in GDPS Future consideration

In the GDPS VPCPCOMN Disk Configuration panel, allow GEOPARM validation from temporary dataset

For any validation of a new GEOPARM before the maintenance window, currently we have to update the production PARMLIB member with new configuration; it requires an update in production, usually not permitted. It would be more appropriate to make t...
3 months ago in GDPS Future consideration

INGALERT EIF function added to GDPS

We use INGALERT to generete Incidens based on CDE in System Automation.GDPS only support IOM, For INGALERT IOM these types are availble GDPS_SDFGDPS_WTOR I would like EIF added to the GDPS use of INGALERT, and more functions added. It would be nic...
4 months ago in GDPS Future consideration

LCP Scheduler Improvements

In the current LCP scheduler implementation, there's no way to add additional actions associated with a capture (for instance a method to enable and disable alert message rules). As it stands, additional automation needs to be in place in order to...
4 months ago in GDPS Future consideration

Specific message required to notify on changes to LCP (audit requirements)

Internal audits have identified a gap where we lack tracking of changes to LCP policies through our indicent reporting system however, there does not appear to be a specific message we can use to generate an incident, only a generic one). We'd lik...
5 months ago in GDPS Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in GDPS 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...
6 months ago in GDPS 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.
6 months ago in GDPS Future consideration

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