HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition Mainframe Agent Installation and Configuration Guide (TK981-96005, May 2014)

Figure 12 Overview of operation in which Replication Manager is used to monitor PPRC copy pairs
CAUTION:
The device number displayed as the device number of the PPRC copy pair secondary volume is not
the same as the device number defined in the host because it is automatically assigned by the YKP2A
command.
Operation procedures
To monitor PPRC copy pairs, configuration files for XP7 mainframe agent are required. The YKP2A
command is used to create configuration files for XP7 mainframe agent. The function for using the
YKP2A command to create configuration files for XP7 mainframe agent is called the copy group
definition generation function for PPRC copy pairs.
Prepare a dataset to store the configuration files below in advance. However, this step can be omitted
if there is capacity available on the device or VTOC:
• Disk configuration definition file
• Copy group definition file
The following figure shows the steps to monitor PPRC copy pairs using Replication Manager:
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