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    Maintain access to SGC recovery at original site after Global Mirror Region Switch

    After a Region Switch, it is no longer possible to recover from the Safeguarded Copies at the previous site. This prevents us from being able to go back in time as we could if we remained in a single site and represents a huge gap in SGC functiona...
    over 3 years ago in GDPS 2 Delivered

    Client Certificates Authentication support for GDPS GUI

    The customer needs Client Certificates Authentication support for GDPS GUI as the customer will no longer allow the users to login with user credentials (userid/password) to access the mainframe.Users are dependent on this support on productive en...
    over 4 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

    GEO-530 (Credit Suisse) INGHWCMD Security

    SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: sir_mc_henrySubmitters Company: Credit Suisse PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: GEO-530 (Credit Suisse) INGHWCMD SecurityHomework Assigned: Requirement Category: GDPS - CommonCurrent Status: IntialClosed Status: Se...
    about 10 years ago in GDPS 10 Delivered

    GDPS/LCP panel security

    As outlined in our case TS005575235 we think it is a major issue that GDPS does not have panel security for LCP. It appears as though any internal user with GDPS access can go in and adjust the LCP management profile and change the retention perio...
    over 4 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

    mtmmGDPS Support for MTMM Dual leg + GM With LCP

    For Barclays to take advantage of logical corruption protection we would need GDPS to support to include Global Mirror into a GDPS Metro Dual leg environment. Currently this is not a GDPS supported configuration. We would then use the Global Mirro...
    almost 7 years ago in GDPS 8 Delivered

    New Feature - zHyperRead

    We would like a feature very similar to zHyperwrite but for reads. We would like the ability for databases to read from a PPRC secondary devices when we are in a hyperswapped scenario
    over 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

    New SAF call to protect execution of GDPS planned actions

    We do now execute scripts from TWS via the GDPS REST Api interface. That gives us a new requirement for protection of our user scripts.User scripts are named and defined by the user(me) with our own naming conventions.
    over 4 years ago in GDPS 4 Delivered

    Allow system shutdown phases in z/OS Proxy-managed systems

    For GDPS managed systems, SA z/OS provides three distinct phases in the final shutdown processing that are defined using the special message id SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN message/user data policy item for the MVS Component entry type. This is not supported o...
    almost 6 years ago in GDPS 7 Delivered

    Query and Set the Fence status of Db2 IMS and VSAM for GDPS CA workload

    This is will be a useful command to query the fence status of the databases, before the switch process, Also ability to set fence / unfence the databases to put it back in a right state so the next workload switch will work without failure
    about 3 years ago in GDPS 5 Delivered

    Provide a dynamic link management function for GM

    IBM provided a dynamic link management ability in GDPS v4.5, which is a really nice addition, but have so far not released the same ability for GM. That impacts us as Metro Global customers because we have to have 2 procedures for managing link fa...
    over 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

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