I will repeat the gist of many previous attempts to get the attention of IBM.
The "next generation" tools are inferior to their (IIRC, z/VM based) predecessors in terms of performance, reliability and functionality. z/VM, z/OS, and AIX are designed with fault tolerance and hot failover capabilities. A "application outage" should not last more time than that to detect the failure and restart the application, assuming the application was not designed for hot standby. 54 hours ("planned") and another 8 hrs plus imply the application was not designed in this manner. Which begs the question, on which platform are the applications hosted (MICROSOFT??), and why are the capabilities of the operating systems not exploited? IBM should be embarrassed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN