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GDPS LCPm Support Multiple SGC Vaults for MGM 4-Site Topology

Looking for GDPS LCP Manager (LCPm) to support multiple SGC vaults for MGM 4-Site topology. A single Safeguarded Copy vault creates a single point of failure in an otherwise highly resilient 4-site GDPS architecture. LCP Manager must support multi...
2 months ago in GDPS Submitted

GSM support for GDPS Metro(LCP) K-system consolidation

Reduces the number of K-sys LPAR required to manage multiple metro LCP environments
4 months ago in GDPS Submitted

Allow 4 to 5 sysplexes to be managed by a GSMPlex

Reduces the number of K systems required to manage a large scale ecosystem.
5 days ago in GDPS Submitted

Add support to Test Copy Manager and LCP for virtual SGC environment in GDPS 4-site and external Test environment.

This solution is required for customers wishing to keep their SGC in a virtual layout, but also want to take advantage of spinning up testing external to their ha/dr resiliency 4-site environment.
about 22 hours ago in GDPS Submitted

GDPS Reports Management: Support centralised report dataset definitions via parmlib rather than manual configuration in each NetView domain

The GDPS Reports Management (panel VPCPRPTM) currently requires the report output datasets to be configured manually in each NetView domain in each system. Please provide support for defining these report datasets through a parmlib member or anoth...
12 days ago in GDPS Submitted

Add option to show exceptions only on GDPS PPRC link panel

When using the GDPS "PPRC Link Config Management" option (panel VPCPQMTV) in both Metro and Global, it shows a number for the the total, exceptions, and updated links. When there are a hundred or more links in the list it can be time consuming to ...
about 1 month ago in GDPS Submitted

Add LCP-SGC sequence number to LCP capture procedure

Adding the capture sequence number to the procedure trace entries from CAPTURE PROFILE(profilename) would be helpful for Cybervault (CV) validations so automation could keep a real time record of capture date/time associated with all sequence numb...
about 1 month ago in GDPS Submitted

GDPS Requirement for Continuing to Take SGC captures when Current SGC Source Becomes Unavailable. In the event of a real DR failover, losing the D disk would also cause an LCP outage.

We would need to take cyber copies in the event of a real disaster
2 months ago in GDPS Submitted

GDPS GEO message to include Restore Seqno and Restore Timestamp on LCP completion

During an LCP incremental restore we need to capture the restore start time, end time, Restore Seqno, and Restore Timestamp for reporting. We can currently see the Seqno and Timestamp in GEORPT, but we need the same details in a GEO message so our...
3 months ago in GDPS Submitted

Return to main geosec panel instead of exiting

When you invoke GEOSEC it does several things in the background to prep the building of rules etc. If you have several roles you need to review as well as reports etc the following process is very annoying. YOu select A1A for the role in question ...
about 1 month ago in GDPS Submitted

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