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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 2, 2012

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Vipadistribute "WLMSTANDBY"

As the options for VIPADISTRIBUTE DISTMETHOD have evolved over time, we have a new scenario that I'm not sure the current options can handle. In a case where we might have a m LPARs at one site and n LPARs at a second site, with our sysplex spanned between, it may be the case for performance or other reasons that I want my workload distributed amongst all of the servers at site A first (via WLM or whatever) and then site B only if all of the site A LPARs are down. HOTSTANDBY gives a similar method for a weighted backup ordering, but it appears to limit a single stack to be the active target at any one time. Curious a mash-up of WLM and HOTSTANDYBY could be created that lets me define a list of DESTIPs for WLM routing and a second (or third) list of DESTIPs that only come into play when the entire (or maybe a percentage, my choice) of the previous "pool" is not available.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS Communications Server

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Networking
    Product - z/OS Communications Server

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