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Status Under review
Workspace GDPS
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 20, 2026

TAKEOVER type scripts for unplanned FREEZE events

Today, GDPS provides SWAPSITE* TAKEOVER scripts that are automatically triggered after unplanned hyperswaps. This provides customers to automate actions after unplanned hyperswap events. These automatic actions can be issuing START SECONDARY for certain replication legs, changing preferred swap and RPFC legs or running user procedures.

Can this same functionality be provided for unplanned FREEZE events so that customers can automate actions after such events similar to the unplanned hyperswaps

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    May 22, 2026

    The first action that comes to mind is to run CDS SITEx to make sure there are no active CDSs on the frozen secondary disk controller, as the disk controller might be in an unhealthy state.

    Other actions that can be automated are:
    - Alerting via EXECUTE, MESSAGE or USERPROC script statements
    - Withdrawing / Establishing FC
    - Maintaining other replication legs outside this GDPS which might have the frozen PPRC secondaries as replication source (eg Global Mirror) via EXECUTE or USERPROC script statements

  • Guest
    Apr 26, 2026
    What action(s) did you envision executing from the proposed FREEZE TAKEOVER script?