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Status Future consideration
Workspace GDPS
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 19, 2024

Show the occupancy level of the extended groups of GMFC and FC1 (ESE) disks in the GDPS MGM solution.

Good morning,

In the KP-systems we have a query screen for the occupancy of the 'Pools' on the 'VPCPQSTM' screen, where you can check the occupancy level of the 'Storage Pool Capacity' of the primary and secondary units. In the case of GDPS MGM, the KR, if I am not mistaken, does not have a similar tool to check the occupancy level of the POOLs of the tertiary control unit (GMFC/FC1/...). I think it would be interesting to have it to be able to evaluate the level of occupancy in the case of performing, for example, recovery simulation tests in Region B, or a resynchronization of the GM copy after a copy outage of several days, ...

I don't know if this functionality is already thought out, prepared for later versions. We have GDPS MGM V4R5.

Regards, Miguel.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Mar 28, 2024

    Doesn't impact us as we are an MGM4SITE environment, and therefor have Kp systems available in the recovery region.

  • Guest
    Mar 28, 2024

    Nice to have

  • Guest
    Mar 28, 2024

    This would be good to have, although we currently do not utilize that screen at the moment. (Low Priority)

  • Guest
    Mar 28, 2024

    N/A for LBG.

  • Guest
    Mar 27, 2024

    n/a


  • Guest
    Mar 13, 2024

    n/a

  • Guest
    Mar 7, 2024

    High Priority for AmEx

  • Guest
    Feb 29, 2024

    forgot to say a high priority for 5/3

  • Guest
    Feb 29, 2024

    5/3 we are already working with IBM to see if either the DS8K GUI or Storage Insights could provide this information too

  • Guest
    Feb 28, 2024

    not needed for Worldpay.

  • Guest
    Feb 27, 2024

    Nice to have feature but not a top priority for us

  • Guest
    Feb 27, 2024

    voted as a nice-to-have only, not prio 1

  • Guest
    Feb 26, 2024

    n/a

  • Guest
    Feb 26, 2024

    A nice-to-have, as is the existing display in Metro-world. I guess this just illustrates our grumble that the various flavours of GDPS aren't very joined-up : the panels look different and new functions are often introduced to one flavour and not the others. Perhaps when we have one, general purpose GDPS netview instance, this will be fixed ? ;-)

  • Guest
    Feb 26, 2024

    Low priority ?!