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    FTDC for GDPS/LCP SGC Capture failures - ODDs to disk

    GDPS/PPRC has not been reliably taking ODDs in all GDPS/LCP SGC capture failures that we've seen. As a result, IBM DASD microcode has not been able to determine why several of our SGC captures have failed. This idea is to enhance GDPS/LCP first ti...
    over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

    LPAR/System Status Tracking within GDPS

    GDPS will keep track the statu of the LPAR/System and display in the Standard Actions Panel. When a user perform an action against a LPAR/system, the status will change accordingly (e.g. after using GDPS to activate an LPAR, the status will change...
    almost 9 years ago in GDPS 13 Not under consideration

    List Flashcopy volumes in MVS UCB Format via GDPS Command

    Hello, Customer was using the GEOPARM before the XML format in order to create (by REXX develloped by themselves) MVS Command for turning the Flashcopy volumes ONLINE or OFFLINE. So they could vary Online the volumes, Dump them and vary Offline ag...
    almost 6 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

    upload temp. asymmetric configuration in a Dual Leg config, to migrate one secondary DS8000 at a time

    We currently have 3 DSS pairs GDPS METRO HS). We need to life cycle one pair and for this we would like to use for the time of migration the MTM3side solution.All primary DSS are in Channelsubset 0 and the seconndary DSS are in Channelsubset 2! Th...
    over 4 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

    Dynamically switch between Global Mirror and Metro Mirror

    Barclays would like the ability to dynamically switch a Global Mirror relationship to a Metro Mirror relationship managed by GDPS. This would allow us to perform a Site Swap without a sysplex outage
    over 6 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

    LCP SGC support in MGM3SITE in RECOVERY region

    When we are in failover state where production runs from recovery region, we can't take any LCP captures. We would like the ability to use GDPS/LCP to take a SGC capture in MGM 3-SITE topology when the production is failed over in the Recovery reg...
    about 3 years ago in GDPS 6 Planned for future release

    Support of LCP with physical isolation along with MM4SITE support

    The requirement requested in ZGDPS-I-221 for MM4SITE support is useful to allow a region switch without service interruption. Further to that LCP with physical isolation alongside with the MM4SITE support is needed for site already running LCP wit...
    about 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

    IDAA support for DR Testing in MGM4SITE

    Currently GDPS supports bringing up IDAA on a suspended PPRC secondary, but does not support an ability to bring IDAA up using a flashcopy version of data. We'd like to enable support of this functionality, preferably using multiple MSS support fo...
    4 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

    Exclusively run the Hyperswap 'Phase 1 check', via a Planned/unplanned Hyperswap script.

    We would be interested in having a tool (SCRIPT,...) that could be executed before running a Planned/Unplanned HS simulation, and certify whether we are (or not) prepared to be able to perform an HS without causing, for example, the fall of a syst...
    about 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

    GDPS ReIpl with Activate

    New funktion in GDPS standard action.ReIpl with activate.
    about 10 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

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