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Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex™ (GDPS®)/Active-Active is an IBM® solution designed to


provide near-continuous availability and disaster recovery for critical business applications. It relies on
software-based replication techniques to synchronize data between sites, in unlimited distances. This IBM
Redbooks® Solution Guide publication describes GDPS/Active-Active and its benefits.

For IMS™ and VSAM workloads, it uses IBM InfoSphere® Data Replication (IIDR) for IMS for z/OS® and
IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) for VSAM for z/OS products, respectively, to replicate data, while
GDPS manages, controls, and monitors the environment for planned and unplanned events.

The replication technology used by IIDR products consists of capture engines, apply engines, and a
transport infrastructure. Capture engines monitor the source data repository for committed transaction
data, which is captured and placed in a transport infrastructure for transmission to a target location. Apply
engines write the data in near-real time to an active copy of the data repository. This is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for z/OS data flow (including IMS and VSAM data)

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Did you know?

GDPS/Active-Active and the IBM software-based replication products, such as IIDR for IMS and IIDR for
VSAM, are not intended to be a replacement to the existing hardware-based or storage-based replication
solutions, but are an option to allow customers to achieve higher IT resiliency objectives. They can also
be combined with other replication techniques and GDPS offerings, such as GDPS/Peer-to-Peer Remote
Copy (PPRC) and GDPS/Metro Global Mirror (MGM), to achieve even higher levels of reliability,
availability, and serviceability for enterprises.

In a GDPS/Active-Active environment, qualified IMS and VSAM workloads can be automatically switched
and balanced between sites depending on the solution configuration, by using the IBM Multi-site
Workload Lifeline for z/OS component.

Business value
GDPS/Active-Active solution provides continuous availability for critical business applications. At the
same time, the system resources and near real-time production data available on the alternate site can be
used for workload balancing and data analytic workloads exploring large amount of real-time data.

To understand how IMS and VSAM replications can be valuable to clients, along with GDPS/Active-Active
management and control, a few questions must be answered:
How long can you afford to be without your critical applications?
During planned or unplanned events, how long does it take to switch or recover your systems in
an alternate location?
What if you can run and balance your IMS and VSAM workloads in two different sites, in unlimited
distances?

GDPS/Active-Active and IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS and VSAM manage data replication at
an application, or a workload, level of granularity, which means that they allow different workloads to have
different levels of protection, performance, and design. With GDPS/Active-Active, customers can use one
site as the primary site for a workload, where the data is updated, and the alternate site can be either a
standby or even a query site for the same workload. This allows customers to create reports and run data
analytics processing concurrently at the alternate site, while production is running and doing updates at
the primary site.

IMS and VSAM replication can provide the following main benefits in a GDPS/Active-Active environment:
Reduced planned and unplanned outages for critical applications
Help clients meeting recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO)
Provide automation to allow a customer’s staff to be more productive and reduce the overall
support and operational skills required to manage the environment
Simplify management of complex operating environments, monitoring, and reporting on events
that can affect recovery
Help maintain compliance with business continuity regulations
Isolation from catastrophic failures
Both primary and alternate sites running workloads
Application-level granularity
Site switch in seconds (after a failure event is detected)
RPO of seconds/minutes (with the ability to issue reports that can be generated showing
orphaned data)
Protection against metro and regional disasters (distance between sites is unlimited)

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