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    GDPS Standard Options 3 doesn't show enough information

    It would be useful to have more information in panel 3 of Gdps 'standard options' to show the size of Memory of all lpars including CF. We now use GDPS to activate/load lpars and we need to check if a new memory profile updated has been taken into...
    almost 3 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

    Query online volumes as script

    As part of our daily routine, we run FCWITHDRAW in the morning and followed by TESTCOPY CAPTURE RC1 NOCOPY to take a flashcopy in a scheduled scripts. Sometimes, when the business performs testing and MVS or zVM team doesn't inform us, the schedul...
    9 months ago in GDPS 10 Planned for future release

    GDPS LCP - Z Cyber Vault - Include Control Script statements to issue FlashCopy Withdraw against RC1 volumes to terminate persistent FlashCopy sessions

    If during z CyberVault validation a persistent FlashCopy is established (FlashCopy NOCOPY or Incremental FlashCopy) and is never withdrawn within the same validation session, it will prevent subsequent failures of a CyberVault validation to run du...
    2 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

    Add parameters SYSTEMS to VPCEQURY on the G-Sys (GDPS GM)

    We are in the middle of exploiting LCP. Every evening we perform an automatic IPL of the CVE (Cybervault Verification Environment) from the flashcopy devices to see if the data is readable and there are no issues. Before we start we want to check ...
    almost 2 years ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

    Dynamic Link Panel for Global Mirror 4-Site B/D Links

    In the current GDPS 4.7 4-site MGM topology, the CHECK_TOPOLOGY command checks all pathing interconnectivity between A,B,C,and D sites. The Dynamic Link panel within GDPS/GM (or NVG system) only supports the management of links being actively used...
    8 months ago in GDPS 6 Planned for future release

    Protect deletion of Dual Control tickets

    Dual Control policy allows you to retain tickets for a specified period. We have set up to retain executed tickets for 52 weeks. However, VPCPDC00 (Dual Control Tickets panel) allows you to delete without any means to protect that from happening. ...
    about 1 year ago in GDPS 9 Planned for future release

    Take advantage of z/OS SRB performance boost during GEOPARM reload

    When performin reload of GOEPARM, for instance when needing to deactivate a PPRC link my customer experiences a high spike of CPU in all CECs causing in some cases service impact to very responsetime sensitve applicartions.2 Cases were opened:- Ca...
    over 4 years ago in GDPS 21 Not under consideration

    CPC Operations query - CBU records

    It order to reduce the access to the HMC-SE, could be useful to have more information in panel 3 --> 1 --> R near related CPC (VPCPCOPR) of GDSPS like to show for each RecID the expiration date and time.
    over 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

    Simplified mechanism for surfacing GDPS operational alerts

    There are 100's or more of Warning and Error level messages that GDPS will display based on ecosystem issues. Not every message needs immediate vs delayed attention. We would like to see an easily customizable mechanism for selectively surfacing “...
    over 3 years ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

    Provide the possibility of having a consistent copy in Region A when we are in a Region Switch situation (Production in REGion B) in the GDPS MGM3SITE solution.

    It is very dangerous to propose a Region Switch in MGM3SITE, since in that situation we will not have a consistent copy in Region A (copy between Region b and A in Global Copy format). In this situation if we have a problem in Region B, the data i...
    about 2 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

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