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    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
    almost 2 years ago in GDPS 14 Not under consideration

    Detailed logging for standard action/scripts

    This RFE is a follow up to problem record 44584.211.788.Recently we were surprised by the shutdown of one of our systems. We checked the netlog to see what happened and saw that someone brought the system down via GDPS standard action.We tried to ...
    over 6 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration

    Check primary DASD devices on all lpars with TEST CONFIG

    Currently GDPS dasd TEST CONFIG checks, on the system on which the DASD Config is run (ie. master K), if the primary devices are accessible. With this idea we would like to extend this check, performed on the master K, to all the lpars of the rele...
    over 3 years ago in GDPS 7 Not under consideration

    Take advantage of z/OS SRB performance boost during GEOPARM reload

    When performin reload of GOEPARM, for instance when needing to deactivate a PPRC link my customer experiences a high spike of CPU in all CECs causing in some cases service impact to very responsetime sensitve applicartions.2 Cases were opened:- Ca...
    almost 5 years ago in GDPS 21 Not under consideration

    Need the ability to execute multiple GDPS scripts at the same time for parallelism

    Mastercard is trying to reduce their RTO during standard IPLs, DR Tests and Region switches. With the restriction of only being able to execute one GDPS script at a time it’s hindering our RTO. If they had the ability of running multiple scripts a...
    about 3 years ago in GDPS 16 Not under consideration

    Checking connections between GDPS K-systems defined in GEOGROUP by GDPS Monitor I

    GDPS has the ability that work in conjunction with Kp-systems, Kg-system, and Kr-system, such as the MGM3SITE and MGM4SITE procedures. To run the procedure, it is mandatory to establish connections between K-systems defined in GEOGROUP. But curren...
    over 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

    Improve FFDC for GDPS

    In the case TS002648540, the log and trace data from GDPS did not provide enough details to track down the root cause of the problem. We could not always have the DEBUG ON in GDPS to capture additional message all the time and this will cause floo...
    over 6 years ago in GDPS 17 Not under consideration

    CC Quiesce for Planned HS

    At a Planned HS and if GDPS detects CC's I would like to get an WTOR with the Information how many CC are active and the options Quiesce HS, Abort HS, Cancel CC's or Repeat the WTOR to see if there are more or less CC's active.
    over 7 years ago in GDPS 19 Not under consideration

    GDPS 4.1 Missing FlashCopy Devices Information

    The information from VPCPFCSO panel does not provide the device number of the tertiary copy which is what we are interested in. Under GDPS 3.14, we can obtain the tertiary DASD info from GDPS under FCQueryS from VPCPQSH1 panel under DASD REMOTE COPY.
    over 6 years ago in GDPS 16 Not under consideration

    GDPS Metro Enhancement

    Hyperswap script execution failed because of active CC sessions.
    about 6 years ago in GDPS 7 Not under consideration

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