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    GDPS PREVENTS USE OF XCF FUNCTION

    Bradesco bank uses GDPS for all Sysplex related maintenance as recommended in the GDPS manuals. However, when there is a need for updates in the CFRM policy customer would like to make use of the DISPLAY XCF,REALLOCATE,TEST command to check for po...
    about 4 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

    GDPS Sysplex Resource Management provide confirmation

    When using GDPS Metro Sysplex Resource Management function to switch Sysplex policy, please display the policy GDPS is going to activate and switch on panel VPCPASSU.So users can visualize and confirm which policy GDPS is about to activate and con...
    almost 4 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

    Improve the messaging for LCP Configuration changes in GDPS

    LCP is critical to our cyber protection planning. We maintain our SGC captures for 7 days, and for security reasons wish to raise an alert of the retention period is changed. Currently there is no GEOxxxxxW message issued just a vague GEORPT messa...
    almost 3 years ago in GDPS 5 Planned for future release

    Improve FFDC for GDPS

    In the case TS002648540, the log and trace data from GDPS did not provide enough details to track down the root cause of the problem. We could not always have the DEBUG ON in GDPS to capture additional message all the time and this will cause floo...
    about 6 years ago in GDPS 17 Not under consideration

    Issue a GEOxxxxxI message every time an LCP SGC capture expires, including a creation timestamp in the message information

    This would allow customers relying on LCP for cyber security to monitor the expiration of capture to ensure that no captures were being expired outside of agreed time limits.
    almost 3 years ago in GDPS 5 Planned for future release

    Enhance GDPS MGM 3site to support IPLs in Recovery region

    In a MGM 3-site environment, major blocker with automating the region switch would be to IPL lpars in Recovery region. Since there is no Kp lpar in Recovery region, shutdown cannot be done from current Kr in recovery region. Only LOAD can be perfo...
    over 1 year ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

    Possibility to disable automatic "PU config on" by GDPS when CBU is active at IPL

    Any z/OS system that is IPLed after the CBU, CPE, BOOST, or OOCoD activate will automatically have the PUs configured online during GDPS initialization in that system. This is not always a wanted configuration. For example, when Dev/Test system ar...
    about 2 years ago in GDPS 8 Planned for future release

    In a GDPS MGM TOPOLOGY the KG/KR analyzes if the tertiary disks are ONLINE by any system, before accepting the GDASD START SECONDARY RESTART command.

    After a recovery simulation test on the B.RS1 disks (tertiary disk in Region B), we had problems in the synchronization process of the GM copy (GDASD START SECONDARY RESTART command) when having some disks ONLINE from an emergency system (it was u...
    over 2 years ago in GDPS 10 Not under consideration

    Improvements to the GROUP keyword used in the SYSPLEX verb

    We would like the ability to have enhanced selection criteria for the GROUP statement in the SYSPLEX verb. As an example during Site Switch, we shutdown the whole of a SITE with the exception of certain systems, it would be useful to have a statem...
    about 4 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration

    GDPS Metro Enhancement

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    almost 6 years ago in GDPS 7 Not under consideration

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