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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...
7 months ago in GDPS Delivered

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...
7 months ago in GDPS Delivered

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 ...
8 months ago in GDPS Delivered

GDPS LCP Recover & Restore enhancements

Hello we are in a GDPS MGM 3 site configuration with GDPS LCP running in the remote region. Unfortunately it is not possible to have multiple recovery set to which you can recover (for running validation & forensic in the same time) and it is ...
9 months ago in GDPS Delivered

GDPS scripts to be executed under auto operators, not the NetView userid that logged on and executed the script

Recently we have had to perform a full GM push of our disks, in some cases this has taken over 17 hours to complete. However our emergency id's (which are the only id's allowed to logon to GDPS) are automatically suspended every 12 hours. We start...
10 months ago in GDPS Delivered

Save environment information -such as IPLINFO- when obtaining an LCP CAPTURE

When GDPS/LCP makes a capture, no information is obtained from the environment that is running at that moment. If captures last for a long enough time, LOADAddr and LOADparms might have changed, and we may be IPLing that system in a Vault environm...
11 months ago in GDPS Delivered

LCP Scheduler Automatic retry

With GDPS 4.8, the LCP manager gained new functionality that added support for a built in scheduling mechanism. This scheduler requires script control in order to create a capture. This means an issue may arise where if an active script is running...
about 1 year ago in GDPS Delivered

External GDPS SCRIPT log for evidence retention

Currently, GDPS script messages (GEOTRACE) are sent to NETLOG and CANZLOG, therefore whenever we need to get evidence of script execution and times (e.g. RTO for a Site Switch process), we need to scan logs manually, and if the scripts were execut...
over 1 year ago in GDPS Delivered

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...
over 1 year ago in GDPS Delivered

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS Delivered