On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:11:42 -0500, Warner Mach wrote: >Around 15 years ago I was involved in disaster-recovery >from the operating system side - the MVS days. I remember >that, at that time, I used to map the installation device >addresses to the device addresses at the DR site. This >meant that we could use our own device addresses and our >own esoteric names without change. This was a normal part >of MVS IO gen, etc. and did not require VM. > . >We are now involved in disaster-recovery at my present site. >When I describe this facility to the Z/OS operating system >guy he gives me a funny look. I scanned though some of the >present manuals and do not see any reference to this kind >of facility. Was the ability to do this kind of mapping lost >somewhere along the way? I know that I did not dream it.
Are you thinking of defining the device names (sometimes called device address) at your D/R site to match the device names at your own site? This is done in the IODF. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
