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Status Not under consideration
Workspace GDPS
Created by Guest
Created on May 2, 2019

Dynamically switch between Global Mirror and Metro Mirror

Barclays would like the ability to dynamically switch a Global Mirror relationship to a Metro Mirror relationship managed by GDPS. This would allow us to perform a Site Swap without a sysplex outage

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Sep 19, 2022
    After giving the request a comprehensive review, we have determined that we cannot include it as a candidate in an upcoming release because it won't be pursued within our planning cycle.
  • Guest
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    Aug 29, 2019

    Would give us a slick way to handle DR switches, this would give us massive benefit.

  • Guest
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    Aug 28, 2019

    MEDIUM. A useful feature which could have potential use for other use cases.

  • Guest
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    Aug 27, 2019

    N/A

  • Guest
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    Aug 22, 2019

    N/A to our environment

  • Guest
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    Aug 9, 2019

    n/a