Eric, It would seem that when planning and budgeting for the storage upgrade, your management failed to factor in what software would be required to leverage the technology being acquired.
My thinking is that this was something that the IBM salesman might not have addressed and his only concern was getting the box on the floor. Hardware salesmen are notorious for not wanting to get involved with software. I come across this more often than not, although some vendors are more geared up for this than others (Ron, your mob are ok!) Your situation is not unlike acquiring the latest & greatest flatscreen TV but still having to watch your movies on a VHS video player and saying there's no money available to acquire the latest Blue-Ray/DVD player to exploit the TV's technology. Stephen Mednick Computer Supervisory Services Sydney, Australia Asia/Pacific representatives for Innovation Data Processing, Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld > Sent: Sunday, 7 September 2008 3:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Info on Setting Up an Lpar for Flashcopy > > Ron, > > Thanks for the information. As I said in an earlier post, we > don't have DFDSS, so I can't do dumpconditioning. I will > take your statement, "This is the problem with the 2nd LPAR > backup method - it's an accident waiting to happen.", and > show it to my boss. That might be enough leverage to get > FDRINSTANT, or the other product which I can't remember the > name of, but I doubt it. > > Another problem with the 3rd lpar approach is that we have a > GRS ring, and as I understand it, a 3rd lpar contributes > logarithmically to the wait times. That is why the 3rd lpar > would be probably shut down except for the weekly pack backups. > > One question I do have though is if I am IPLing from a single > or 2 pack system, and I have a few things online, such as the > Zara tape catalog (which I know nothing about yet but soon > will learn), or the usercatalog the tapes are cataloged in, > what happens since there is a duplicate volume that was > flashed? Is that part of the accident waiting to happen? > > By the way, we don't have DFHSM either, and I don't know what > FRBACKUP is, but I assume that HSM is required. I'm not sure > if we have FDRABR or not. I'll probably call them on Monday. > I know we have FDR and I think we have Compaktor, but I'm not sure. > > In answer to Tom Conolly, since my internet connection at my > hotel is so slow, I will look at FDRINSTANT, but my hopes are > not too high. It was good talking to you several days ago. > > Eric Bielefeld > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
