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Allow script filters to persist for duration of NetView session

Sometimes, a user will go in and out of planned actions multiple times when working with GDPS. New in GDPS 4.8 is the ability to use the filter command to show specific scripts. This is a handy feature, but it would be even better if it retained t...
about 20 hours ago in GDPS Submitted

Provide a new GDPS option to optionally disable SNMP interface checking

We were told by IBM that the SNMP interface from GDPS to the Disk subsystem was not mandatory, and that the GDPS monitors provide sufficient alerting in detecting disk related issues. Therefore we did not setup the SNMP trapping of alerts from the...
about 20 hours ago in GDPS Submitted

Suppress GDPS alerting for inactive sessions in BID(YES) GM2SITE

We recently configured additional KG & KR domains on our GDPS GM2SITE to support the BID(YES) feature code. Alerts are constantly being produced (WTO's and SDF) for STOPPED sessions on the inactive GDPS pair of domains, and DISK MIRROR shows N...
about 21 hours 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.
13 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.
9 days ago in GDPS Submitted

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

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...
20 days ago in GDPS 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 Future consideration

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 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 Future consideration

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