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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

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

Dual control function for DASD Config

Within the DS8K there is protection in place that a (malicious) person is not able to delete/alter devices that are part of safeguarded copies. We have a cybervault LCP setup to ensure we have immutable backups of our systems, and activated Dual C...
over 1 year ago in GDPS Delivered

Dual control function for Policy mgmt

In GDPS you can make changes to your policies in option 1 Dasd Remote Copy > 2 Policy Mgmt. With the new GDPSADMIN.DASDCTL profiles the protection possibilities have increased, but having this changed under dual control would be a good improvem...
over 1 year ago in GDPS Delivered

Report possible active CC session(s) during a planned HyperSwap

A planned HyperSwap is not allowed if there is a DFSMS Concurrent Copy (CC) session present in the GDPS environment. GDPS reports this with "HyperSwap not possible due to CC session(s) in primary or secondary disks." The user has to use the F ANTM...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 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...
about 3 years ago in GDPS Delivered

Store the active IPLType/-mode at time of LCP capture

For the IPL of our production systems we have 2 IPL-sets, the A- and B-set. Every xx weeks we apply maintenance on the inactive set and then IPL from that set. When performing an IPL of the CVE, of one of the LCP captures, we need to know what was...
over 2 years 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

Provide Filter for Control Scripts in the Panels

We have a large number of scripts in our Metro environment in certain GDPS plexes. The ability to filter on script names with wild cards would be useful to only display script names of a certain naming convention
over 4 years 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

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