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GDPS

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Provide the ability to control when MONITOR1 interval runs.

We would like the ability to control when MONITOR1 interval runs to avoid it running at the same time when we have multiple GDPS K-systems hosted on the same CEC.
about 1 year ago in GDPS 11 Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

OOS tracks in MGM3SITE recovery region

When production is failed over in the RECOVERY region, we will be in Global copy from C-B. When we are ready for failing back to main region, we run the MGM3SITE_GOHOME_CAS_RS1_RS1. During that, it will ensure EMPTYOOS. However, if there are lot o...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 6 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 ...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

GDPS Ansible Collection for IBM Z

While GDPS has already provided the APIs for integration with customers developed automations or CI/CD pipelines, it would further simplify the use of the GDPS APIs if IBM could provide the GDPS Ansible Collection for IBM Z. Using of Ansible Tower...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

Improvements to the GROUP keyword used in the SYSPLEX verb

We would like the ability to have enhanced selection criteria for the GROUP statement in the SYSPLEX verb. As an example during Site Switch, we shutdown the whole of a SITE with the exception of certain systems, it would be useful to have a statem...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 11 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...
about 4 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

MGM resiliency in recovery region

With MzGM 4-SITE we had resiliency in our recovery region for disk. For example, if C disk (XRC secondaries) died, GDPS/Metro in that region could Hyperswap to D disk and XRC would remain up, capable both of building DR and of doing our daily requ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

Split & Swap screen in GDPS Netview

Currently under GDPS Netview, there is limitation to split/swap between multiple screens. With the ability to split & swap between multiple screens, GDPS actions & verifications can be managed well in parallel & it would be useful to...
4 months ago in GDPS 4 Not under consideration

GDPS Granular security for Panels

Instead of having just access or no access to the GDPS panels it would be nice to grant Read or Update access to specific functions.
almost 7 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release