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GDPS

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    GDPS to support multiple consistency group for e-CKD devices per GDPS license

    As of today, GDPS only supports one consistency group for e-CKD devices per GDPS license, however it would be nice if customers could create multiple consistency group for e-CKD devices under a single GDPS license, that will allow customer to mana...
    over 3 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

    Change GA date of new GDPS releases

    Is there a reason why GDPS doesn’t release new releases in September to coincide with the new release of z/OS ? Would it be possible for GDPS to move to releasing software in the (same) September timeframe ? I ask as (we), Citi, time our builds of...
    almost 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

    GDPS provisions SAF controls for accessing Netview when Netview already has a SAF resource to perform this. This means there are now two resources protecting the same function

    With the implementation of GDPS 4.7 and the steps outlined in Role based security, GDPS folks have provided the following profile GDPSADMIN.USERCTL.<domain_id>. This means that when role based security is enabled and GDPS 4.7 is initialized ...
    about 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

    GDPS/PPRC management of an additional PPRC-XD relation off the secondary FC target.

    We would like to manage with GDPS a PPRC-XD relation starting from the secondary FC target of the production sysplex to our pre-production sysplex disks.
    over 7 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration

    Avoid GDPS Healthcheck SPOF for single rack DASD subsystems

    In TS003711052 we encountered an issue where GDPS/PPRC Healthcheck claimed to detect a single point of failure - "all paths share a SPOF on control unit interfaces". This is not a real issue because the DASD is a single rack subsystem and we expec...
    over 5 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

    VMRELOCATE off from GDPS menu

    We would like to be able to set vmrelocate off for guests running under z/VM from GDPS menu
    almost 8 years ago in GDPS 13 Not under consideration

    Remove the requirement for a FICON connection to production disk for Testcpy manager

    Remove the requirement for communications over FICON for GDPS TestCopy Manager
    about 6 years ago in GDPS 7 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 7 years ago in GDPS 13 Not under consideration

    Add the ability to MODIFY scripts for one shot executions

    Currently the GDPS scripts must be updated in the XML file and then reloaded. It would be nice to add a function similar to the INGMDFY function in System Automation. This GDPSMDFY function would allow you to correct an issue in a script that was ...
    over 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

    LCP GM managed capture process split In an GM managed LCP environment

    LCP GM managed capture process split In an GM managed LCP environment (LCP Manager in the GM Kr controlling systems and SafeGuarded Copies in the GM secondary site) we need to coordinate some additional operations when capturing a new SafeGuarded ...
    almost 4 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

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