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Utilize BCPii for z/OS Consoles after LOAD or STOP - HMA Operating System Messages

GDPS Communicates with the LPARs on the HMA Support Element via BCPii. This is how it is able to Activate, Deactivate, Load, Reset & Shutdown the LPARs from GDPS. Add the HMA Support Element Operating System Messages option (Call it CONSOLE) t...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 3 Under review

That GDPS LCP & GDPS MGMxSITE interact with TDMF automatically.

If I am not mistaken, if you have GDPS LCP and want to perform disk TDMFs, you must manually perform the following sequence of actions: 1._ Extract the TDMF TARGET disks from the GDPS LCP ‘session’. 2. Wait ‘x’ amount of time until all SGC BACKUP ...
about 2 months ago in GDPS 2 Under review

give customer a script to validate GDPS pre-requisites

We are moving to GSM, and we have a lot of modification to do on application LPAR.Forgetting a parameter could lead to another IPL to correct or can lead to a production problem.Having a script or a something to validate all configuration before a...
2 months ago in GDPS 2 Under review

Disable the capability to set the safeguarded copy expiration date

It is possible to delete LCP safeguarded copies by changing the expiration data to the actual date. This means that if somebody has been able to get the authorization to change the expiration date. He or she will be able to delete safeguarded copi...
3 months ago in GDPS 2 Under review