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GM (Global Mirror) to Replicate Sysplex Coupling Datasets

Before we were MGM3Site we used XRC. With XRC we were able to mirror to our site3 frames our sysplex coupling datasets via an asynchronous SDM, therefore being able to IPL our COB lpars using the flashed copy of our CDS volumes that contained the ...
1 day ago in GDPS Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in GDPS Future consideration

INGALERT EIF function added to GDPS

We use INGALERT to generete Incidens based on CDE in System Automation.GDPS only support IOM, For INGALERT IOM these types are availble GDPS_SDFGDPS_WTOR I would like EIF added to the GDPS use of INGALERT, and more functions added. It would be nic...
11 days ago in GDPS Submitted

LCP Scheduler to automatically handle clock changes

We currently have to manually change the Global Offset value to -1 for BST and 0 for GMT. Can LCP be updated to automatically handle this?
4 days ago in GDPS Submitted

Specific message required to notify on changes to LCP (audit requirements)

Internal audits have identified a gap where we lack tracking of changes to LCP policies through our indicent reporting system however, there does not appear to be a specific message we can use to generate an incident, only a generic one). We'd lik...
about 1 month ago in GDPS Future consideration

Special IPLMODE processing for K-systems

GDPS today has special processing if you use IPLMODE names RS1, RS2 and RS3 and automatically selects the correct site table entry after a planned/unplanned hyperswap, to be used for the next IPL. However this is only done for the production (or a...
20 days ago in GDPS Under review

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.
3 months ago in GDPS Future consideration

Support for Bi-Directional Global Mirror and LCP.

We are currently a 2SITE GDPS GM customer and have external GDPS LCP to manage SafeGuarded Copy. We are looking to reduce our control LPAR count as well as take advantage of the benefits of Bi-Directional GM to manage our session and region switch...
5 days ago in GDPS Submitted

In the GDPS VPCPCOMN Disk Configuration panel, allow GEOPARM validation from temporary dataset

For any validation of a new GEOPARM before the maintenance window, currently we have to update the production PARMLIB member with new configuration; it requires an update in production, usually not permitted. It would be more appropriate to make t...
5 days ago in GDPS Submitted

Multiple scripts execution at the same time

Hello, it is not possible to launch 2 scripts at the same time , we have to wait the end of the execution of the first script started to execute a new script. It will be good to permit the parallel execution of the scripts. For example, when we a ...
about 2 months ago in GDPS Submitted

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