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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...
    about 1 month ago in GDPS 5 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 ...
    16 days ago in GDPS 1 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...
    21 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.
    8 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

    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 ...
    21 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

    GDPS dual legs 3 sites Metro Mirror extended to be 4 sites so as to attain HA in the DR data center as is in the Production data center

    This extension will allow the regular swap between Production and DR data centers because both will have HA. Regular swaps and long stays in the DR center are supposed to be a requirement of DORA
    over 2 years ago in GDPS 14 Not under 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...
    6 months ago in GDPS 3 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.
    8 months ago in GDPS 7 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...
    6 months ago in GDPS 5 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...
    4 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

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