A recovery manager (for example, GDPS®) can use the IXCCFCM service to provide recovery status information to CFRM. To implement this solution, the CFRM policy must contain SITE information that has been added by the Administrative Data Utility. The recovery manager uses the IXCCFCM service to inform CFRM of the site being used as the recovery site. When a recovery manager is active, CFRM uses the provided recovery site information along with the site information from the CFRM active policy to assist in making CF structure duplexing failover decisions.

Recovery managers can use the IXCQUERY service to obtain SITE information for a coupling facility.

For additional information about using GDPS as a recovery manager, see www.ibm.com/server/eserver/zseries/gdps.