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GDPS

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GDPS Design Council and the z/OS Container Council to transform the GDPS Control LPARs to either a Secure Services Container

Many larger customers and even smaller customers have more GDPS control LPARs than they have actual z/OS application LPARs. (AmEx – 20 GDPS LPARs for Global Mirror). The amount of control LPARs then have be kept current with z/OS maintenance, secu...
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

Terminology consistency in GDPS BPCPDEFS panel

Make terminology used on panel VPCPDEFS consistent with terminology used in panel VPCPFLFZ. On Panel VPCPFLFX the column IplType has a value of Normal and Abnormal to refer to the LPAR definitions specified in the GEODOMAINS UET. When the operator...
about 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

GDPS/GM to provide a function to revert/commit specific volumes

GDPS/GM does not provide any function to revert/commit specific volumes in the remote site. Reverting/committing specific volumes is the best option to get out from a GM session that went into a FATAL state, especially if the FATAL state is due to...
over 9 years ago in GDPS 4 Planned for future release

GDPS CA - Incorporate IIDR Scheduled End option

We currently use IIDR for VSAM for z/OS to replicate CICS VSAM files across two PLEX's under the control of the GDPS Continuous Availability (Active – Active) software. When we do a switch between the two PLEX's we would like to automate the IIDR ...
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

MONITOR TSAMP APPLICATIONS FROM GDPS

GDPS currently provides the ability to monitor and control TSAMP clusters and nodes via the xDR panels. it does not however provide the ability to monitor applications defined to TSAMP (i.e. resources of class IBM.Applications).
over 6 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration

Ability to manually disable protective mechanisms like QHA

This is to request manual ability to disable various protective mechanisms in GDPS, for example automatic QHA on GDPS/PPRC resynch/failback. We recently had an issue PMH 13736 BR 122 where pathgroups were left online to an LPAR that was already do...
over 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

RFE VPCPMON1 (LSS view): OOSTrks detail

RFE VPCPMON1 (LSS view): OOSTrks detail. The Itau bank Operation support team has a process to investigate the details every time that GDPS issues the message 'CONSISTENCY GROUP CREATION FAILED'.The Operation needs to look into GDPS VPCPMON1 panel...
over 8 years ago in GDPS 4 Planned for future release

GDPS/MGM does not handle all status combination

In a GDPS/MGM environment there are situations where the primary and secondary GM status combination is not handled properly. For example, after a hardware failure on an intermediate disk subsystem, if the B volumes are set to SIMPLEX due to a CST...
almost 9 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

Global Mirror in NOK state GEO* message

GDPS does not currently create a GEO* message that can be monitored and alerted on when the Global Mirror is in a “NOK” state. When the Global Mirror replication is in a “NOK” state we would no doubt have issues with DASD replication along with ad...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Request to include in the GDPS monitoring functions to verify the QHA for duplicated PATH-GROUP-IDs.

The Itau bank faced a situation related to the information showed by the command "DS QD,<dev>,QHA,1". They needed to init disk volumes, but few of them failed informing that were PATH-GROUP-IDs online, the interesting thing when they checked...
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

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