GDPS functions as an extension of Tivoli Netview System Automation. I've never worked with TPF, but I'd be very surprised to see SA run there.
As already stated, GDPS does not depend on PPRC. We run with XRC/SDM, which itself is a component of DFSMS. z/OS required of course. That being said, 'business recovery' to a remote environment does not require GDPS. We went for 10 years doing XRC with manual recovery procedures. The addition of GDPS was a huge boost that I would not want to relinquish, but DASD mirroring was the key element. Any method of replication should allow TPF to IPL in DR with a lot less delay than Delta suffered. The most common gotcha of any mainframe DR solution is the need to have all those rabbit hutch denizens also available. The fools-gold rush to open system servers has generally ignored the implicit DR cost: buying *and maintaining* double the capacity needed for production. Many applications have become dependent on Unix or Windows components. If those could not be brought up expeditiously in Delta's production, what hope would there be in bringing them up in remote DR? . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ecklund, Roger J Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 7:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Delta Outage GDPS if implemented in a MGM or a MzGM environment provides Hyperswap and a near instantaneous Hyperswap to the secondary disk would occur. From What I have heard about the Delta outage it was external systems outside of the environment that caused the outage, I cannot confirm nor deny that. We have encountered issues that have triggered a hyperswap and our customers have never felt an impact. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 8:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Delta Outage GDPS is a DS8 technology. Like HDS G1000 and HUR Steve -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 6:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Delta Outage On 8/17/2016 4:25 PM, Clark Morris wrote: > From one of the papers I skimmed, the outage may have been caused by > a failure in the backup power system or the changeover control system. > Does Transaction Processing Facility (Nee Airline Control Program?) > support GDPS? Delta's mainframe stayed up. https://twitter.com/SoulEddieJ/status/764081680483098624 -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
