360 IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server: Implementing ESS Copy Services with IBM eServer zSeries
B.1 GDPS overview
GDPS is a multi-site application availability solution that provides the capability to manage the
remote copy configuration, automates Parallel Sysplex operational tasks, and performs failure
recovery from a single point of control, thereby drastically improving application availability.
GDPS supports all transaction managers (for example, CICS, IMS, WebSphere) and
database managers (for example, DB2, IMS, and VSAM), and is enabled by means of key
IBM technologies and architectures:
Parallel Sysplex
Tivoli Netview for OS/390
System Automation for OS/390
IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS)
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