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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/TPF Product Family
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 4, 2015

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OSA VIPA swing

Currently, the TPF system only supports swinging of VIPA's when the OSA connection that was previously active fails. TPF does not support an automatic swing of VIPA's when OSA's fail during activation. From the TPF documentation....

VIPAs can swing between a pair of OSA-Express connections on the same processor. This process, known as swinging VIPAs, occurs automatically when the OSA-Express connection that does not own the VIPA is active and:
The OSA-Express connection that owns the VIPA fails.

Customer is requesting changes to include automatic swinging of VIPAs when trying to activate an OSA fails..

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 23, 2020

    Based on priority and effort, IBM does not intend to implement this in the foreseeable future.

    This would be a significant amount of work to incorporate since the OSA activation / VIPA swing area is complex. The TPF lab does not believe this is a significant issue since it generally occurs after an outage of some sort (that is, after an IPL). Given the complexity and the value it provides, IBM is declining this requirement.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/TPF

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Transaction Processing
    Product - z/TPF

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