GDPS Overview and Recent Enhancements (Release 3.7 and 3.8)

Project and Program: MVS, MVS Storage Management

Tags: Proceedings, 2011, SHARE in Orlando 2011

With over 10 years in the market and over 550 customer implementations in
40 countries, Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) is the
industry's leading automated, end-to-end High Availability / Disaster
Recovery solution for enterprises that use System z servers.

After a short overview of the different GDPS offerings, get a technical
update on recent functional enhancements made available in releases 3.7 and
3.8. Learn about improved availability functions (reduced impact of false
freezes, enhanced Server Time Protocol (STP) and Sysplex Timer support);
improvements in cross-platform capabilities (support of Fixed Block (FB)
disks); simplified systems management functions (Freeze and Swap policy
enhancements); scalability improvements (GDPS/XRC no UCB FlashCopy); and
more. A discussion of new and improved GDPS tools will also be included.

Presenter(s): Alan G. McClure, IBM Corporation

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