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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 2 years ago in GDPS 5 Not under consideration

Ability to launch Python from batch like JZOS

We would like the ability to launch Python from batch like the way JZOS can launch Java from batch.
10 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 2 Not under consideration

Update zoau mvscmd to support --cmd= for tso commands

The zoau mvscmd supports the --steplib= for a --pgm=program. Please add an option to invoke a tso command such as --cmd=command and then the --args= would be parameters passed to the tso command. This would fill the void the default tsocmd lacks a...
8 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Not under consideration

GDPSMNT Enhancement

Enhancement to GDPSMNT
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 7 Not under consideration

API for admin dashbord

To improve automation capability setting up, creating and managing projects that in normal case require manual intervention through the dashboard. I propose to add a api to do the same tasks through some kind of api (http, config-file or cli) to b...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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 4 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Grouping feature to group the jobs for more granular anomaly detection in AIDA

We would like to request the implementation of a grouping feature within AIDA to enable the grouping of jobs(by application) for more granular anomaly detection. Currently, AIDA will provide anomaly detection for all jobs in the workstation. Howev...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Increase OMEGAMON/CICS online statistics limitation

Currently, OMEGAMON/CICS has limitation on online historical statistics is 4GB is the maximum per CICS region. In the growing of online CICS transactions, this limitation does not allow our OEMGAMON/CICS to have over 1 working day's transaction hi...
11 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 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 3 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

Enhance testing capability of SYSPLEX RESOURCES

We have a test environment for GDPS/Metro that is contained within one physical disk subsystem. The TEST=YES option is used in the GEOPARM to tolerate this setup. We would like this TEST=YES feature extended to accommodate the SYSPLEX RESOURCE MAN...
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

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