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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...

5 months ago in GDPS 4 Not under consideration

8 VOTE

Provide a DELETE option for the STOP SECONDARY, and a NOCOPY option for the START SECONDARY script statements

As an MGM4SITE environment with external LCP, we have regular resiliency tests where we failover from one region to the other (REG-A to REG-B). When we do this we have to terminate the copy to the LCP source disk in the old recovery region (REG-B)...

over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

6 VOTE

Exclusively run the Hyperswap 'Phase 1 check', via a Planned/unplanned Hyperswap script.

We would be interested in having a tool (SCRIPT,...) that could be executed before running a Planned/Unplanned HS simulation, and certify whether we are (or not) prepared to be able to perform an HS without causing, for example, the fall of a syst...

about 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

14 VOTE

Health check for zIIP processors on KSYS

It is recommended that reserved zIIP are available in a KSYS and it would be very helpful to have a new Health Check raising a warning if a KSYS LPAR has available zIIP but they are not reserved. This Health Check should be customizable for differ...

almost 3 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

19 VOTE

Extend GDPS Hyperswap Support to Linux for IBM Z

Currently when a GDPS HM Hyperswap occurs, all managed PPRC volumes under z/OS get switched to their secondary site UCB automatically and concurrent while the (z/OS) systems are up and running.Under Linux for IBM Z (in our case RHEL 8.2), to switc...

almost 4 years ago in GDPS 7 Planned for future release

13 VOTE

Improved device messaging during CONFIG failure

During configuration processing of a region switch, we loaded a never used config before as we hadn't run in reverse mirror direction before. When we loaded the configuration, we received the following error message: 05:04:20 | GEOTRC AUTGEO3 MPMK...

over 2 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

12 VOTE

Extend "Check Topology script" to verify that a Region Swap would succeed if executed

Almost an extension of the Check Topology script, but goes further by validating that everything is available, remote lpars, Standard action settings that would be used, replication links, etc. We had a failed production region swap test (first tr...

over 2 years ago in GDPS 5 Not under consideration

3 VOTE

Let the GDPS automatically perform the 'FCWITHDRAW FC1' if it detects that the extended groups are filling up.

We currently have an GDPS MGM3SITE configuration and are thinking about defining FC1 disks to be able to perform 'recovery tests in Region B' without affecting the GM copy. FC1 disks are ESE. In testing of filling Extend Pools in TEST environments...

8 months ago in GDPS 2 Future consideration

22 VOTE

GDPSMNT Enhancement

Enhancement to GDPSMNT

almost 5 years ago in GDPS 7 Not under consideration

20 VOTE

GDPS should automatically clean up from destructive repair operations on storage devices

We recently had a "B" box outage that required support to utilize the CST process that removes all in memory structures including copy services. This created orphaned secondary pairs in our GDPS Metro Global session. Currently within GDPS we can o...

over 4 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

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