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Status Not under consideration
Workspace GDPS
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 23, 2024

move GDPS to run under ansible as compare to NetView

Unify automation solution,  increase UNIX usage on z/OS  and reduce software cost.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Mar 27, 2024
    Information not provided.
  • Guest
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    Feb 23, 2024
    GDPS development will contact the submitter directly via email to request some additional information about this idea.
  • Guest
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    Jan 30, 2024

    Not only UNIX... automation to, for example, IPL a lpar as part of upgrades will be handy. We can use ansible to talk to HMC, but then GDPS is not aware of that. So if you can talk to GDPS the same way as you can to HMC, that would be helpful.

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