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GDPS dual legs 3 sites Metro Mirror extended to be 4 sites so as to attain HA in the DR data center as is in the Production data center

This extension will allow the regular swap between Production and DR data centers because both will have HA. Regular swaps and long stays in the DR center are supposed to be a requirement of DORA
10 months ago in GDPS 14 Not under consideration

Need the ability to execute multiple GDPS scripts at the same time for parallelism

Mastercard is trying to reduce their RTO during standard IPLs, DR Tests and Region switches. With the restriction of only being able to execute one GDPS script at a time it’s hindering our RTO. If they had the ability of running multiple scripts a...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 16 Not under consideration

Multi session access Netview and Portal/GUI

With today we've activated the GDPS GUI and PORTAL to our 4 production sysplexes. Currently, users can connect to the GUI, but they can't be simultaneously connected to Netview via 3270 and vice versa. Enabling multi-session access would allow use...
6 months ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

Checking connections between GDPS K-systems defined in GEOGROUP by GDPS Monitor I

GDPS has the ability that work in conjunction with Kp-systems, Kg-system, and Kr-system, such as the MGM3SITE and MGM4SITE procedures. To run the procedure, it is mandatory to establish connections between K-systems defined in GEOGROUP. But curren...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Provide the possibility of having a consistent copy in Region A when we are in a Region Switch situation (Production in REGion B) in the GDPS MGM3SITE solution.

It is very dangerous to propose a Region Switch in MGM3SITE, since in that situation we will not have a consistent copy in Region A (copy between Region b and A in Global Copy format). In this situation if we have a problem in Region B, the data i...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

Enhance GDPS MGM 3site to support IPLs in Recovery region

In a MGM 3-site environment, major blocker with automating the region switch would be to IPL lpars in Recovery region. Since there is no Kp lpar in Recovery region, shutdown cannot be done from current Kr in recovery region. Only LOAD can be perfo...
9 months ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Take advantage of z/OS SRB performance boost during GEOPARM reload

When performin reload of GOEPARM, for instance when needing to deactivate a PPRC link my customer experiences a high spike of CPU in all CECs causing in some cases service impact to very responsetime sensitve applicartions.2 Cases were opened:- Ca...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 21 Not under consideration

GDPS Sysplex Resource Management provide confirmation

When using GDPS Metro Sysplex Resource Management function to switch Sysplex policy, please display the policy GDPS is going to activate and switch on panel VPCPASSU.So users can visualize and confirm which policy GDPS is about to activate and con...
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

Improve FFDC for GDPS

In the case TS002648540, the log and trace data from GDPS did not provide enough details to track down the root cause of the problem. We could not always have the DEBUG ON in GDPS to capture additional message all the time and this will cause floo...
about 5 years ago in GDPS 17 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to control when MONITOR1 interval runs.

We would like the ability to control when MONITOR1 interval runs to avoid it running at the same time when we have multiple GDPS K-systems hosted on the same CEC.
about 1 year ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

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