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Hide by default the liberty Profile version number, displayed on https://LibertyLibertyIPaddress:port

The Liberty profile server is included in GDPS Installation. We noticed, it's possible to display the liberty Profile number version by entering the internet address of the Liberty welcome page ://LibertyLibertyIPaddress:port. It's a problem becau...
9 months ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

Programmatically Update Monitor INTERVAL Start via AUTLCP1

There is no way currently to accurately set the timer on an ad hoc basis. Essentially the timer starts when the Interval value is updated or when a master switch occurs. In our use case, we have set up alerts for Partial Captures via GEO2976I, but...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 2 Delivered

Provide a dynamic link management function for GM

IBM provided a dynamic link management ability in GDPS v4.5, which is a really nice addition, but have so far not released the same ability for GM. That impacts us as Metro Global customers because we have to have 2 procedures for managing link fa...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

That from GDPS panels it is possible to obtain the % free and/or filling of the Extent Pool of the defined ESE disks (FC1, X-DISK, GMFC)

It would be interesting to know at any time, from GDPS, how full the Extent Pools associated with ESE disks are. For example, if we are performing recovery simulations in Region B on FC1 disks, knowing how full we have said disks. In the event tha...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 4 Delivered

VPCEQURY HS command change to unnecessary the authority for issuing HYPERSW

VPCEQURY is GDPS Query Services command. Customer thought it is just query and doesn’t grant higher authority to their operator for issuing the commands such as HYPERSW. This is reasonable in terms of security, because the commands that require hi...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

LCP (screen VPCPLCS3) : provide a script to export backup details and allow them to be written to a GDG.

When managing the safeguarded capacity multipliers for volumes in LCP, it would be very helpful to be able to see how exceptional volumes have behaved over the last week or so. Currently the 'EXPORT' command in panel VPCPLCS3, " Logical Corruption...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Delivered

Set report of all errors found when reloading a new GEOPARM (in a single validation sequence)

In large GEOPARMs, the verification can take several minutes. When the GDPS performs the reload/validation of the GEOPARM, it stops if it finds syntactic errors. They must be corrected and perform the syntactic validations again, then the consiste...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Delivered

GDPS command to initiate LCP EXPORT function outside of panel VPCPLCPD

Idea@IBM: GDPS command for the initiation of LCP EXPORT function with DSN parameter and optional DISP & VOLSER parameter. Current implementation only allows manual generation of EXPORT dataset via the VPCPLCPD panel. Reason: To allow automatio...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 10 Delivered

Support Null configuration as a supported feature for Region Switch

For clients managing multiple GDPS sessions within a single Kg/Kr system pair, provide the ability to load a null config (via XML) for region switch purposes. This capability does exist but according to IBM is not supported. This would allow custo...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

GDPS problem determination/detection tool

I would like to see a GDPS problem determination/detection tool that would be able to interrogate the netlog and identify better the cause of a particular failure. The error message reporting (although getting better in recent versions) in the Net...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 23 Delivered

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