On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:41:06 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote:
>>There's no right or wrong here about who's responsibility it is or was. > >For storage management, I disagree. > >You do not have applications applying maintenance to DB2, or z/OS. >You do not have apps submitting production jobs. > I was talking about test / development. I do agree that for anything production or required for a disaster (this could include a lot of development data), then storage management should be the gate keeper. But for test data, unless you have a policy and resources to backup "everything that spins on disk and everything created to tape", then I don't see a problem with the application folks deciding on their own if it is important enough to back up. In many shops, the amount of test data is equal to or greater than the amount of production data. Either way, both sides need to set and agree to the rules. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
