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    GDPS LCP - Report Capture status

    Today with GDPS LCP on Metro we have multiple captures and a low multiplier for our volumes. As a result we have seen many volumes fall out of SGC on the DS GUI which means they are no longer recoverable as part of certain capture sets. We underst...
    almost 5 years ago in GDPS 7 Delivered

    GDPS GEOPARM CONFIG

    We have an Environment where is a Bi-Direction Global Mirror with one Global Mirror being Active, This Allows us to Failover and then Failback for Siteswap. The GEOPARM in the Reverse Direction could not be validated currently as there is active R...
    about 5 years ago in GDPS 9 Delivered

    That from GDPS panels it is possible to obtain the % free and/or filling of the Extent Pool of the defined ESE disks (FC1, X-DISK, GMFC)

    It would be interesting to know at any time, from GDPS, how full the Extent Pools associated with ESE disks are. For example, if we are performing recovery simulations in Region B on FC1 disks, knowing how full we have said disks. In the event tha...
    over 2 years ago in GDPS 4 Delivered

    Change GDPS site table dynamic

    It would be nice to have the option to change GDPS sitetable dynamic via GDPS panels, instead of going thrue System Automation policy and doing build and refresh.
    about 10 years ago in GDPS 3 Delivered

    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 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Delivered

    Possibility to start a rexx located on ZVM by GDPS

    Since GDPS is "the captain on the ship" we have the need for a possibility that GDPS can start a (CMS) rexx script which is located on ZVM.
    over 6 years ago in GDPS 8 Delivered

    Set report of all errors found when reloading a new GEOPARM (in a single validation sequence)

    In large GEOPARMs, the verification can take several minutes. When the GDPS performs the reload/validation of the GEOPARM, it stops if it finds syntactic errors. They must be corrected and perform the syntactic validations again, then the consiste...
    over 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Delivered

    GDPS and LCP reporting. More functions needed

    It would be great if we could use sort on the VPCPLCS3 panel in GDPS. Maybe in combination with the filter command. Ie a command like this:filter used(80,gt) sorted descending
    over 4 years ago in GDPS 2 Delivered

    New SAF call to protect execution of GDPS planned actions. Repeated.....

    We do now execute scripts from TWS via the GDPS REST Api interface. That increases the importance for protection of our user scripts. User scripts are named and defined by the user(me) with our own naming conventions.If you have access to execute ...
    over 4 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

    VPCEQURY HS command change to unnecessary the authority for issuing HYPERSW

    VPCEQURY is GDPS Query Services command. Customer thought it is just query and doesn’t grant higher authority to their operator for issuing the commands such as HYPERSW. This is reasonable in terms of security, because the commands that require hi...
    over 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

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