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Graceful Switch should be able to restart at the point of last break

GDPS/A-A 1.7 does not provide capability to restart the switch process at the last break point for graceful switch and force switch. It only provide a WTOR when STOP QREP timeout. It is far from customer's requirements.
over 7 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Improved autonomics for Lifeline Advisor automatic takeovers

Several customers have asked for the ability to identify scenarios where a Lifeline Advisor takeover can be done automatically without risk of having two primary Lifeline Advisors active at the same time.
over 7 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Unique GDPS/A-A SDF Alert Deleted Message ID

For messages that result in GDPS/A-A raising an SDF alert in NetView (GEO1108E for example), when GDPS/A-A deletes the SDF alert It doesn't have a separate message ID to say "SDF ALERT HAS BEEN DELETED", it reuses the original alert's message ID. ...
over 7 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Report Latency on workloads with no connections

Where applications update multiple data sources (DB2 and VSAM) through a single set of connections, multiple workloads need to be defined but the connections can only be associated with one workload. In this case, a workload is defined without any...
over 7 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Supress Workload Switch in GDPS/A-A UI

In the case where there is shared data across multiple applications/workloads it may not be possible to implement the GDPS/A-A workload switch capability, since it would prevent access to the shared data by applications outside of the workload on ...
over 7 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Unplanned switch for workload groups

Any workload grouping capability delivered in GDPS/A-A should equally apply to un-planned switches. In particular, it should be possible to configure invokation of an unplanned switch of a workload group by responding to a single WTOR relating to ...
over 7 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Supress Set Fence During Workload Switch

Have the functionality within GDPS/A-A to disable setting of the fence in DB2 (and VSAM, once that becomes available) during planned and unplanned workload switches. The reason for the request is due to a workload that reads data owned by another ...
over 7 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Workload Switch De-allocation of Batch VSAM files

VSAM replication utilises a dedicated CICS region to make updates to VSAM files on on the target system. In the case of batch VSAM files, the apply region must have exclusive access to the VSAM files, so the files must be de-allocated before being...
over 8 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

GDPS/A-A support for manual fence/unfence of DB2 workload tables

GDPS/A-A needs to provide the ability to manually fence and unfence the DB2 tables associated with a workload. The ROUTING SWITCH command performs fencing, but we need a means to manually control this. Needed to fix failures during the switch proc...
over 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

GDPS/GM: checking valid CGROUP(NO) value for Global Copy

GDPS/GM does not check whether CGROUP(NO) has been specified for all its Global Copy paths. This can lead to undesirable effects (ELB) when a pair gets suspended.In a pure Global Mirror solution a deadlock would happen when applications were not a...
over 8 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

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