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GDPS

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Improvements to Load Parameter Management in Standard Actions

In our production plex, we have 576 load parameter combinations for our applications systems. Performing mass updates is cumbersome and time consuming. We would like to see enhancements to the process thus; 1. The ability to backup these entries t...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 14 Future consideration

Add CEC info to GDPS panel VPCPSTD1

GDPS panel VPCPSTD1 includes an 8 char column with LPARname. However, from this panel an user cannot determine which CEC an LPAR is defined on.It is possible to have duplicate LPARnames on different CECs. This is useful if system instances are mov...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 12 Future consideration

GDPS should recover from secondary dynamic pathing problem

After problems on the secondary Metro Mirror devices due to maintenance on channel paths, following messages occurred: IOS210I PATH RECOVERY INITIATED FOR PATH xx on CU yyyy REAS PATHING ERROR and IOSHS0010I DYNAMIC PATHING IS NOT INITIALIZED FOR ...
7 months ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

GDPS PREVENTS USE OF XCF FUNCTION

Bradesco bank uses GDPS for all Sysplex related maintenance as recommended in the GDPS manuals. However, when there is a need for updates in the CFRM policy customer would like to make use of the DISPLAY XCF,REALLOCATE,TEST command to check for po...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Copy services issues are reported under a generic problem code

In the support case, we have an issue with the copy services license key (missing the MGM license) which prevent the START SECONDARY after a planned hyperswap. However, the issue is only reported under a generic problem code which makes it difficu...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

GDPS and LCP reporting

We don't want to face errors when using GDPS and LCP. First suggestion.We ask for a way to automatically monitor and a proactive report on the virtual Capacity used values before a volumes Safe Guarded Capacity(SGC) runs full. Today in GDPS panel ...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

Full Hyperswap Support for IDAA on z/OS (SSC)

In discussions when preparing to start out PoC for IDAA on z/OS GDPS Support, it was shared that Hyperswap is not fully supported in SSC like a z/OS LPAR, and it takes an actual outage because the IDAA instance needs to be restarted after the swap...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 14 Future 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...
over 7 years ago in GDPS 13 Not under consideration

GDPS ReIpl with Activate

New funktion in GDPS standard action.ReIpl with activate.
over 8 years ago in GDPS 9 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.
about 1 year ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

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