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Status Future consideration
Workspace GDPS
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 8, 2024

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Have FCWITHDRAW check if volumes are online

When running a script to take a TESTCOPY, the first step is to do a FCWITHDRAW of the existing flashcopy.  If a system is active using this TESTCOPY, this will cause I/O errors and may cause the system to crash.  The TESTCOPY CAPTURE runs, but it performs a check to see if the volumes are online and if the system(s) did not crash, the script fails due to target devices being online - "ANTF0342E FLASHCOPY TARGET IN PATH GROUP - ONLINE TARGET NOT ALLOWED".  If the "TESTCOPY CAPTURE FC1" command can check if targets are online, the "FCWITHDRAW FC1" should be able to do that as well.  This will protect us from ourselves in case we forgot to shutdown the test environment prior to the script running.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Jan 24, 2025

    Not urgent by us, so low priority. Would a solution come into conflict with those that use/want ONLINTGT(YES)? I'm not sure.

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  • Guest
    Jan 2, 2025

    Good idea

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  • Guest
    Dec 19, 2024

    Agree the check is needed. Low priority.

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  • Guest
    Dec 19, 2024

    Good idea, low priority.

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  • Guest
    Dec 19, 2024

    LBG agrees this is a good to have. Low priority.

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  • Guest
    Dec 18, 2024

    GarantiBBVA thinks, it can be useful.

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  • Guest
    Dec 13, 2024

    Not applicable to our environment

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  • Guest
    Dec 12, 2024

    American Express agress this is a good to have. Low priority.

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  • Guest
    Dec 12, 2024

    Worldpay agrees this would be nice to have. With a low priority.

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  • Guest
    Dec 12, 2024

    It would be a feature that would really be useful for us. While we could delegate some work to operators, we do it ourselves for these types of controls.

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  • Guest
    Dec 12, 2024

    Agree to have a precheck!

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  • Guest
    Dec 12, 2024

    We also run into these kinds of issues from time to time, so it would be good if a precheck could be done.

    Reply

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