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Improve Site table management to eliminate double management

When defining or changing the site table in SMGM it is necessary to perform the same tasks in both regions, even though in our environment, the IPL attributes are identical for managed systems in both regions.We would like an option to propogate t...
over 9 years ago in GDPS 2 Planned for future release

More ODD dump scenarios for GDPS first time data capture

We would like GDPS/PPRC to take ODD dumps on any unplanned Hyperswap disable and any Hyperswap failure event. I believe GDPS already takes them automatically for any unplanned Hyperswap. For example, we had MONITOR 2 get read device characteristic...
almost 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

GDPS/MTMM Automation enhancement to issue an Informational/Warning Message before varying an Application Lpar out of plex.

As a reult of Site1 BCOPY Disk failure (Rank Failure) GDPS Performed a Hyperswap in error to the failed disk thereafter it quiesced the Application Lpar's before taking it out of the plex. This was identified to be a bug with GDPS. Ref APAR :PH060...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

Return Home Procedure improvement

CHINA MENTCHANTS BANK is using GDPS/MGM 3.13 3-site with IR function now. We use GDPS/MGM Return Home procedure to do planned site switch. We have the requirement to keep SITE2 data as a golden copy, but current procedure doesn't support. Could GD...
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Make "Q"ueryXDR option available on panel VPCPSTA1

In working with z/OS Proxy clients it is often necessary to check on status of individual clients from the "Standard Actions" panel (VPCPSTD1). However, when trying to diagnose problems with hyperswap enablement we frequently need to use the secon...
almost 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

GEO-561 (IBM) GEOMPARM Validation

Need the ability to validate GDPS/GM DASD configuration data (GEOMPARM) when the devices are not in a normal Global Mirror state.
over 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

equest nature/scope is to update GDPS so that falsely generate GEO558I event does not trigger FREEZE

Performing other testing which produced a message id of GEO550I caused a freeze to occur. As this was not the actual GEO550I the text was not the actual issue. It appears that other message ID's could also cause similar executions.
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

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.
about 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.
about 7 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

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