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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...
14 days ago in GDPS 3 Under review

Issue a Geo-message, with the name of the management profile, showing a capture is being taken

We just started implementing GDPS 4.8 Before GDPS 4.8 we used a batch script, via a NetView timer, to take a capture. The netlog would show: GEO304I BATCH SCRIPT LCPCAPTURE STARTED GEO305I BATCH SCRIPT LCPCAPTURE ENDED SUCCESSFULLY Between these m...
14 days ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Messages GEO2775I and GEO2776E should display the profile name

When a capture is taken it will either end successfully, showing: GEO2775I LCP SAFEGUARD CAPTURE ENDED SUCCESSFULLY or fail, showing: GEO2776E ERRORS ENCOUNTERED DURING LCP SAFEGUARD CAPTURE EXECUTION neither messages shows the name of the managem...
14 days ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Improvements in KG movement operation when performing a GM leg movement in GDPS MGM3SITEs

In our opinion, and knowing that it is not the same, we believe that the KG should have two instances in Region A and pass on the role of ‘primary gm’ depending on whether we have the GM leg in A.RS1 or A.RS2. We have carried out a simulation of t...
19 days ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
20 days ago in GDPS 2 Under review

VPCEQUERY-Based Recovery Copy Detection

Enable automated detection of active recovery copy operations using VPCEQUERY, enhancing operational awareness and preventing conflicts or redundant recovery actions.
27 days ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Q uiesce R esume action should be disabled when missing the permit

When you are on the "VPCPMP00 Logical Corruption Protection Management Profiles" panel, as far as I know, the GDPSADMIN.LCPCTL.QUIESCE.<sysplex_name><domain_id> profile does not protect any individual management profiles. It grants or ...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 1 Is a defect

Script management needs distinction for SECURITY="<group>" tag

With SECURITY="<group>" tag we can allow different users to execute different scripts. However, the Script management option/panel does not have this distinction. Either you do have access to the panel and the permit to stop/reset any script...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 2 Is a defect

LCP-automated Forward Recovery of Application Data for ISV DB2 / IMS utilities

In case of a logical data corruption we need to be able to recover from an LCP snapshot. To reduce the RPO we need to be able to do DB2 Log Recovery to roll forward with the data to get closer to the point of corruption. We use ISV utilities for D...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

GDPS LCP - Z Cyber Vault - Include Control Script statements to issue FlashCopy Withdraw against RC1 volumes to terminate persistent FlashCopy sessions

If during z CyberVault validation a persistent FlashCopy is established (FlashCopy NOCOPY or Incremental FlashCopy) and is never withdrawn within the same validation session, it will prevent subsequent failures of a CyberVault validation to run du...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

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