In a recent note, Bruce Black said: > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:11:16 -0500 > > Flashcopy has a "consistent flash" mode that makes it unnecessary to > suspend application updates, as long as the application is a logged > system doing dependant writes ... > I'm unfamiliar with the terms, but it's pretty clear from the context what it must be about.
Does DFSMS have a new facility for "dependent writes" that somehow chains the writes together? Is it as simple as doing all the writes in a single channel program with a guarantee that the perceived updates of the backing store are congruent with the order of the I/O requests? -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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