>Even a complete disaster on the first test is a success, under the >covers. It will point out the flaws in the plan, and the items that are >missing.
To warm up (is that an English expression?) an old argument: The above *assumes* that it is a 'real' test, as in "Let's take down the system on the fly and see if it comes up again". I have seen this done once, and it really pointed out a lot of problems that we could then fix. Unfortunately, the going practise is to "test DR" by doing an orderly shutdown first and then just re-IPL in the other location. In my opinion, this just tests that you defined hardware (and maybe some infrastructure in iplparm/loadxx/ieasysxx) correctly), but it is not a DR test. To answer the original question: In Germany there is a requirement to *have* a DR plan, as far as I know, but no requirement to test that regularly. It is sort of implied that it needs to be tested :-) Regards, Barbara Nitz -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
