We did some initial tests with XRC, which I think GDPS depends on?.  The z/OS 
guys found lots and lots of error messages due to the fact that VM does not XRC 
timestamp it's I/O.  (Linux does apparently).   They felt it wasn't doable 
until VM started timestamping.   

Marcy Cortes

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RPN01
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [LINUX-390] IBM GDPS and zVM DASD

What can anyone out there tell me about ³Globally Dispersed Parallel Sysplex² 
for zOS, and zVM sharing DASD with that environment? The zOS team here is 
actively looking at it (I¹m in the meeting w/ IBM right now), but by the sounds 
of it, zVM is totally screwed; If something causes zOS to hiperswap, (like a 
quarterly test of the procedure) zVM is either left standing on DASD running 
unmirrored, or just crashes because it can no longer access any DASD at all.

Is anyone running in this environment? If so, what are the implications to zVM? 
I really don¹t have a ³comfortable feeling² about this at all. It doesn¹t seem 
like a well thought-out product, if it won¹t support all of IBM¹s environment...

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