HP P9000 for Business Continuity Manager Software 6.6.
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Version: 6.6.1 Description This document contains release notes on the HP P9000 for Business Continuity Manager Software. Update recommendation: Recommended Supersedes: 6.6.
Table 3 Supported enhancements and features (continued) Item New Features and Enhancements available (P9500). This function preserves a consistency of a C/T group including a copy group for Open and a copy group for MF. Operation improvement When a local disk is scanned by YKSCAN command, the capacity of volume is obtained in cylinder. Also the capacity is obtained by YKQRYDEV. When generating a copy group definition, the volumes of P-VOL and S-VOL are checked.
Table 5 Fixes (continued) Fixes Applied products Applied OS copy pair status is reported wrongly as the SIMPLEX status. This problem may occur when all of the following conditions are met: • Create an BC copy pair structured by more than two S-VOLs to one P-VOL. • Remove a part of the copy pair created above. • Execute Fast Query function or YKEWAIT command to the copy pairs remained.
Table 7 Restrictions (continued) # Restrictions 6 Do not specify the following values to the DADID of a Disk Configuration Definition, a copy group and a route list. Specifying those values may cause the information displayed in Discover HP Storage Arrays panel to become incorrect. • “R” • “CMD” • “I” • “K” • “RC” Example that cannot be specified • “R” • “xx.R” • “R.xx” • “xx.R.xx” where xx is an arbitrary string of one or more characters. 7 The following features cannot be used with P9500.
ISPF panels Table 9 Overall Item Specification in V6.6 New Specification in V6.6.1 Version Command Control Address (CCA) Selection List None “Cyls” is displayed as a unit of a volume capacity. 6.6.1-00 Pair Selection List (Primary) None “Cyls” is displayed as a unit of a volume capacity. Pair Selection List (Secondary) None “Cyls” is displayed as a unit of a volume capacity. Copy Group Pair Detail None Check a volume of capacity and “Cyls” is displayed as a unit of a capacity.
Table 11 Prerequisite programs when linking Replication Manager # Program name Description Notes 1 IBM Communication Server A communication program Standard OS component 2 Replication Manager A program required to define, use, and monitor copy pairs. 7.1.0 3 IBM HTTP Server for z/OS An optional product bundled with Use Version 6.1 WebSphere™ Application Server for z/OS. This is required when establishing IPv6 connections or HTTPS communication with Replication Manager.
Memory and disk space requirements Virtual memory space requirements The following indicates the user region necessary to run BCM. • User region under 16 MB: 1,024 KB • Extended user region over 16 MB ◦ For TSO/E: – ◦ 4,000 KB + (2 x number of volumes) KB For Batch: – 4,000 KB + ↑(1.5 x number of volumes)↑ KB number of volumes: Number of all volumes included in DAD used. When two or more copy groups are operated, they are sum totals of the number of volumes that each copy group uses.
Table 14 Disk space requirements (continued) Files to be installed Required space (in unit of tracks*1) Number of directories HPQSYPNLT 60 tracks 200 HPQSYMSGT 5 tracks 5 HPQSYTABT 5 tracks 5 Prerequisite conditions The following tables show prerequisite conditions for 4x4x4 Multi-Target configuration with Delta Resync. Table 15 Prerequisite hardware Item Description Remarks Host Primary site: 1 host z/OS or OS/390 should be installed.
Table 17 Hardware settings Item Description Remarks Arbitration command devices DKCs at the Remote site: One or more arbitration command devices for each subordinate DKC. Arbitration command devices must be set up with Remote Web Console. Journal groups Journal groups for Cnt Ac-J. Timer type must be “System.” • Required at the Primary, Remote, and Local sites. • Journal groups must be set up with the Remote Web Console before running a script. Journal volumes Journal volumes for Cnt Ac-J.
Table 18 Software settings (OS and BCM) Item Description Remarks Route list (Configuration file) As in the basic 3DC Multi-Target configuration with Delta Resync pairs, the host at each site must have its own route list. See “Preparing the Software (OS, Business Continuity Manager)” in the User Guide to set up a route list. Cnt Ac-S copy group (Configuration file) Cnt Ac-S Consistency Preservation function must be applied.
Table 19 Overview of CLI commands (continued) # CLI command 4x4x4 configuration Differences from previous version 6 YKDELPTH Not applicable Not applicable 7 YKEWAIT Supported None 8 YKFCSTAT Not applicable Not applicable 9 YKFREEZE Supported None 10 YKLOAD Supported None 11 YKMAKE Supported None 12 YKQRYDEV Supported None 13 YKQRYPTH Not applicable Not applicable 14 YKQUERY Supported None 15 YKRECVER Supported After performing Delta Resync, if the Delta Resync copy
Table 20 Operation procedure of 4x4x4 Multi-Target configuration with Delta Resync # Operation procedure Description Configuration Difference from 3DC Multi-Target configuration • Bi-directional paths must be set between P-L, P-R and L-R sites. 1DC Arbitration paths and command devices for 4x4 configuration are necessary. Preparation 1 Hardware setup • One ore more Journal groups in each site. • Arbitration paths and arbitration command devices.
3. 4. configurations are XP10000/XP12000 disk arrays, XP20000/XP24000 disk arrays, or P9500 disk arrays. N:1 configuration and a configuration that consists of 4 or more DCs are not supported. BCM supports 4x4 and 4x4x4 Multi-Target configurations. Note that the configuration should consist entirely of XP10000/XP12000 disk arrays, XP20000/XP24000 disk arrays, or P9500 disk arrays. BCM supports 4x4x4 Cascade configurations.
9. Do not perform PPRC operation to the BCM copy pairs. If you performed PPRC operation to the BCM copy pairs, dissolve and re-establish them by BCM. But only if you performed CSUSPEND operation with default operands on the BCM copy pairs as Cnt Ac-S copy group without the C/T group ID, you can resynchronize such copy pairs with CESTPAIR operation with default operands. 10.
