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Let the GDPS automatically perform the 'FCWITHDRAW FC1' if it detects that the extended groups are filling up.

We currently have an GDPS MGM3SITE configuration and are thinking about defining FC1 disks to be able to perform 'recovery tests in Region B' without affecting the GM copy. FC1 disks are ESE. In testing of filling Extend Pools in TEST environments...
11 months ago in GDPS 2 Future 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...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 6 Planned for future release

protection of productive systems by performing Hyperswap Unplanned validations with SETIOS HYPERSWAP

When we want to perform Hyperswpa Unplanned simulation tests we use the recommended 'SETIOS HYPERSWAP' command. Hyperswap Unplanned If it finds a system that is not ready for Hyperswap (for whatever reason), it does a SYSTEM RESET to ensure the su...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 8 years ago in GDPS 13 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
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Dual control function for Policy mgmt

In GDPS you can make changes to your policies in option 1 Dasd Remote Copy > 2 Policy Mgmt. With the new GDPSADMIN.DASDCTL profiles the protection possibilities have increased, but having this changed under dual control would be a good improvem...
4 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

LCP (screen VPCPLCS3) : provide a script to export backup details and allow them to be written to a GDG.

When managing the safeguarded capacity multipliers for volumes in LCP, it would be very helpful to be able to see how exceptional volumes have behaved over the last week or so. Currently the 'EXPORT' command in panel VPCPLCS3, " Logical Corruption...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

GDPS ReIpl with Activate

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

GDPS - DASD Config to Allow FC Sessions

Hello IBM,In case TS003773513 we were testing the GDPS Metro 4.1 Preserve Mirror Tool and came across a problem which we had never seen with GDPS/PPRC 3.14 and its version of the PMT. The IBM case above stated that with 4.1 the PMT (which is now i...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Extend GDPS Metro Support for KVM Guest Systems

To build a KVM environment under Linux for IBM Z makes it necessary to implement new HA and DR features. In a grown z/OS environment, GDPS Metro solves many problems which have to be solved again for Linux just by another product. To make IBM Z wi...
about 4 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

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