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Yes please, sounds like a useful idea.
as always… the more parallelism the better…
This requirement would be considered a 'nice to have' for LBG, i.e., low priority and not something we'd need within the next two years.
Having the ability to run multiple scripts or Standard actions at one time would be greatly beneficial.
Not being able to reset or perform a Standalone dump on a system because another system is involved in a shutdown.
You should be able to invoke similar actions at the same time as well. Shutting down an image and then 5 minutes later invoke a shutdown of another image. This should not cause confusion to GDPS and it should be able to track these items as seperate functions.
We have some inconvenience for waiting on scripts to end before we can start new ones, but those are mainly when we Stop, Load, Activate and Deactivate Lpars, so basically the "standard actions".
Be aware, currently without parallelism there is an automatic safety net that conflicting scripts could be running at the same time. When parallelism is made possible we should not introduce the possibility of having conflicting scripts running at the same time. Safety first.
Would be helpful to start IPLs in parallel
nice to have for us
Being able to run system shutdown and IPL scripts in parallel would be a great improvement for BAU and recovery scenarios.
I support the idea of enhanced parallel processing regarding Scripts.
Parallelism would be greatly appreciated
Yes, anything involving BCPii takes a while, so speeding recovery up via parallelism would be appreciated.
This suggestion and the ability to have a script initiate another would be nice to have.
We are also looking to implement more parallelism in our GDPS scripts. If we could execute a CBU activation during our DASD recovery and have those streams running in parallel, that would be very helpful. There would be other use cases as well.