On Thu, 8 May 2008 10:23:37 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We >also don't mirror spool for all but a couple of very small environments >(one sysplex has about 70 3390-3 volumes we don't mirror). We accept >that anything in the spool at the time of a disaster is lost. This wouldn't >be much as we have output control software. That came out wrong. Obviously if that environment needs 70 spool volumes there could be a lot of data lost. What I meant to say is that it wouldn't be much loss of anything importance since all the important stuff is managed by the output control software. Anything in the spool waiting to print that was production could be re-spooled. Test / programmer output... who cares. >If network bandwidth wasn't >a consideration, we would mirror everything as it does make the process >simpler. > -- 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
