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GDPS

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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...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Not under consideration

GMCLEANUP should remove GM FC relationships ONLY

When performing a Region Switch the GMCLEANUP step uses in-band commands to remove the GM FC relationship. When there is more than a GM FC Flashcopy relationship(s), the non GM-FC relationships are also removed. These additional relationships (FC1...
over 6 years ago in GDPS 13 Not under consideration

GDPS Design Council and the z/OS Container Council to transform the GDPS Control LPARs to either a Secure Services Container

Many larger customers and even smaller customers have more GDPS control LPARs than they have actual z/OS application LPARs. (AmEx – 20 GDPS LPARs for Global Mirror). The amount of control LPARs then have be kept current with z/OS maintenance, secu...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

Terminology consistency in GDPS BPCPDEFS panel

Make terminology used on panel VPCPDEFS consistent with terminology used in panel VPCPFLFZ. On Panel VPCPFLFX the column IplType has a value of Normal and Abnormal to refer to the LPAR definitions specified in the GEODOMAINS UET. When the operator...
about 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

MONITOR TSAMP APPLICATIONS FROM GDPS

GDPS currently provides the ability to monitor and control TSAMP clusters and nodes via the xDR panels. it does not however provide the ability to monitor applications defined to TSAMP (i.e. resources of class IBM.Applications).
over 6 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration

Ability to manually disable protective mechanisms like QHA

This is to request manual ability to disable various protective mechanisms in GDPS, for example automatic QHA on GDPS/PPRC resynch/failback. We recently had an issue PMH 13736 BR 122 where pathgroups were left online to an LPAR that was already do...
over 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Request to include in the GDPS monitoring functions to verify the QHA for duplicated PATH-GROUP-IDs.

The Itau bank faced a situation related to the information showed by the command "DS QD,<dev>,QHA,1". They needed to init disk volumes, but few of them failed informing that were PATH-GROUP-IDs online, the interesting thing when they checked...
almost 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Have GDPS scripts check for themselves as to whether systems have been shutdown

MGMM_SWITCH_ABCD_CDAB and any other 3/4 site procedure issues prompts to confirm systems are down.We would like the script to check for itself, and not issue prompts - the information is available to GDPS.
almost 10 years ago in GDPS 3 Not under consideration

Support of DASD SWITCH HYPERSW RESYNC in GDPS/Metro single leg topology with MTFO=YES

In GDPS/Metro v4.1, the DASD SWITCH HYPERSW RESYNC statement no longer support with TOPOLOGY=MM2SITE and MTFO=YES. In our site, we have a GDPS/Metro single leg environment for the production with a physically isolated LCP environment using the cas...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

GDPS A-A Sites / FIS Connex Interoperability

The client has GDPS A-A sites implemented in an Active Standy configuration in production with a FIS Connex workload. However, since Connex requires exclusive access to its VSAM files, compromises have been required to implement IIDR for VSAM. Pri...
over 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

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