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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 8:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Delta Outage GDPS is a DS8 technology. Like HDS G1000 and HUR Steve -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 6:36 PM To: [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
