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GDPS

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Standalone Dump support in GDPS AutoIPL

In order to allow prompt response in the scenario of a system failure, automating a standalone dump taking upon system failure is a key process for collecting essential diagnostic information and at the same time allow prompt recovery of system to...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Need the ability to execute multiple GDPS scripts at the same time for parallelism

Mastercard is trying to reduce their RTO during standard IPLs, DR Tests and Region switches. With the restriction of only being able to execute one GDPS script at a time it’s hindering our RTO. If they had the ability of running multiple scripts a...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 14 Future consideration

GDPS Standard Options 3 doesn't show enough information

It would be useful to have more information in panel 3 of Gdps 'standard options' to show the size of Memory of all lpars including CF. We now use GDPS to activate/load lpars and we need to check if a new memory profile updated has been taken into...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

GDPS/Metro ability to IPL on Subchannel sets 2 & 3

We have our GDPS/LCP recovery volumes in Subchannel sets 2 & 3 but GDPS/Metro cannot IPL systems onto those subchannel sets. We would like to see GDPS/Metro add the capability to IPL on all available z/Series subchannel sets.
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

The GDPS shutdown process of multiple LPARs today are done in parallel, however the monitoring of the progress of each LPAR is done serially. Since the shutdown is done in parallel, the checking should also be done in parallel so if a timeout occurs the GEO288A message is issued at the time of the timeout and not serialized.

To speed up the shutdown process and be notified of potential timeouts sooner so they can be actioned.
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Increase the maximum supported SafeGuarded Copy captures beyond the current 500

The current limit of 500 SGC captures means we have to have a trade-off between the frequency of captures, and the retention period of those captures. We have currently have a company-wide requirement for 7 days retention, which means we are limit...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 3 Future consideration

FCWITHDRAW FORCE option for unreachable devices

GDPS Metro does not allow doing a GEOPARM config which removes devices if they are related to an existing FC relationship. Normal procedure is to remove that relationship using DASD FCWITHDRAW prior to that config. This scripts deletes, both FC re...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 2 Future consideration

Checking connections between GDPS K-systems defined in GEOGROUP by GDPS Monitor I

GDPS has the ability that work in conjunction with Kp-systems, Kg-system, and Kr-system, such as the MGM3SITE and MGM4SITE procedures. To run the procedure, it is mandatory to establish connections between K-systems defined in GEOGROUP. But curren...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

GDPS CA UI filter for the workload components

When Displaying the workload components in the UI for the workload , Ability to filter only the lines with status active,
over 1 year ago in GDPS 4 Future consideration

Check primary DASD devices on all lpars with TEST CONFIG

Currently GDPS dasd TEST CONFIG checks, on the system on which the DASD Config is run (ie. master K), if the primary devices are accessible. With this idea we would like to extend this check, performed on the master K, to all the lpars of the rele...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 6 Future consideration

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