RE: the comment: GDPS is z/OS based, so there is no GDPS for TPF, VM, zLinux or VSE. Not strictly true for z/VM and Linux on z Systems.
z/TPF has its own 'high availability' options/configuration: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSB23S_1.1.0.13/gtpc3/ch1.html IBM have the GDPS Virtual Appliance offering: The GDPS Virtual Appliance is intended for clients that use z/VM systems hosting Linux on IBM z Systems™ guests and do not have z/OS® systems in their environments. The GDPS Virtual Appliance delivers GDPS/PPRC xDR capabilities through a self-contained GDPS Controlling system that is delivered as an appliance. The GDPS Virtual Appliance monitors and manages PPRC, secondary data consistency and planned and unplanned HyperSwap for the disks of the managed z/VM systems (and guests). The appliance also monitors and manages the z/VM systems and provides system and hardware management capabilitie s to perform actions such as performing graceful shutdown of managed z/VM systems or loading, resetting, activating or deactivating the LPAR of z/VM systems. Facilities for managing temporary capacity (CBU, OOCoD or CPE) are available. A new, intuitive graphical user interface is provided for monitoring of the environment and performing various actions. GDPS scripting is available to automate workflow for planned and unplanned actions that require multiple operator actions. The GDPS Virtual Appliance provides a comprehensive high availability and disaster recovery solution for z/VM clients that do not have z/OS systems or skills. Some comments have been made about GDPS. Further details: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/advantages/gdps/index.html As regards the Delta outage itself, here is another POV (apologies if this URL has already been shared). https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mainframes-problem-solution-jeff-hall ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
