Jennifer, There are many sites doing something similar with FlashCopy on HDS and IBM, Shadowimage on HDS, Snapshot on SUN, and Snap on EMC. However, because you are using EMC in system copy you really need to limit your scope to EMC's Snap and the products that support it.
Experience with other vendors may not reflect the pros and cons of your hardware. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Jennifer Currell > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Dataset FLASH/SNAP question > > We have a project which wants to copy about 1tb of data from prod to dev. > All the data will be in the same EMC DMX. > All the data will be in the same sysplex/SMSplex. > The datasets will be renamed when copied. > The data is DB2 and IMS - so lots of little files. > The process will be repeated every 1-2 months. > Minimal outage to the source (prod) is required.. > > We have looked at EMC Timefinder SNAP at dataset level but there is a bug > whereby it seems to randomly rename the target dataset. Problem is with EMC > but little progress. > > We also have FDRABR and FDRinstant (from Innovation) which we currently > use for our backups. > > We are looking at FDRCOPY and it seems similar to Timefinder SNAP but it > works. > > Does anyone else do something similar? Any problems? Things to look out for? > > Thanks in advance > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
