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Status Planned for future release
Workspace GDPS
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 14, 2025

VPCEQUERY-Based Recovery Copy Detection

Enable automated detection of active recovery copy operations using VPCEQUERY, enhancing operational awareness and preventing conflicts or redundant recovery actions.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Oct 27, 2025

    N / A

  • Guest
    Oct 23, 2025

    n/a / important for us

  • Guest
    Oct 23, 2025

    n/a

  • Guest
    Oct 21, 2025

    n/a for AmEx

  • Guest
    Oct 21, 2025

    n/a

  • Guest
    Oct 21, 2025
    Per recent GDPS DC Conferences, with client concurrence, we announced that the VPCEQURY service would be functionally stabilized and the GDPS RESTful API would be the service going forward. We will explore pursuing this Idea via the GDPS RESTful API.