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    GDPS should automatically clean up from destructive repair operations on storage devices

    We recently had a "B" box outage that required support to utilize the CST process that removes all in memory structures including copy services. This created orphaned secondary pairs in our GDPS Metro Global session. Currently within GDPS we can o...
    over 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

    Provide the ability to control when MONITOR1 interval runs.

    We would like the ability to control when MONITOR1 interval runs to avoid it running at the same time when we have multiple GDPS K-systems hosted on the same CEC.
    about 2 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

    GDPS/Metro 4.2- No need of any contextual validation? when View command used for a Script

    When we select a script with view we clearly indicate that we do not intent to launch the script
    over 5 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

    Disable the capability to set the safeguarded copy expiration date

    It is possible to delete LCP safeguarded copies by changing the expiration data to the actual date. This means that if somebody has been able to get the authorization to change the expiration date. He or she will be able to delete safeguarded copi...
    3 months ago in GDPS 2 Under review

    Improved device messaging during CONFIG failure

    During configuration processing of a region switch, we loaded a never used config before as we hadn't run in reverse mirror direction before. When we loaded the configuration, we received the following error message: 05:04:20 | GEOTRC AUTGEO3 MPMK...
    over 3 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

    Provide facility to recover a subset of LCP (Safeguard) volumes

    Currently LCP (Logical Corruption Protection) "recovery sets" are managed as a single entity collection of volumes and the recovery process handles them as a complete set. This enhancement would allow definition of a subset of the full recovery se...
    over 4 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

    Extend "Check Topology script" to verify that a Region Swap would succeed if executed

    Almost an extension of the Check Topology script, but goes further by validating that everything is available, remote lpars, Standard action settings that would be used, replication links, etc. We had a failed production region swap test (first tr...
    over 3 years ago in GDPS 5 Not under consideration

    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...
    4 months ago in GDPS 1 Needs more information

    Provide a DELETE option for the STOP SECONDARY, and a NOCOPY option for the START SECONDARY script statements

    As an MGM4SITE environment with external LCP, we have regular resiliency tests where we failover from one region to the other (REG-A to REG-B). When we do this we have to terminate the copy to the LCP source disk in the old recovery region (REG-B)...
    over 2 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

    2Factor Authentication for GDPS GUI

    We currently use 2Factor Authentication for our z/OS logins. To be able to login to the GDPS GUI we need it to support 2Factor Authentication.
    over 7 years ago in GDPS 14 Not under consideration

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