On 11/30/2012 12:12 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:
I have become curious. I know you run multiple Lpars at different levels of z/OS. It seem s unlikely to me that HSM is failing in all of them. And that you should be able to get your back-ups, at least temporarily form a working copy :)
In this particular parallel sysplex we happen to be running three systems: two at z/OS 1.13 and one 'other' z/OS release. IBM's support structure for the 'other' z/OS release is not as robust as for z/OS 1.13, so we run the daily backups under z/OS 1.13 only.
Follow-up: Based on the PDA logs, IBM thought that one large (5000 cylinder) ZFS seemed to be a trigger for whatever the problem was. We backed that up manually via BACKDS command and then the normal dailies started working again. (Whew!)
In fairness, a big part of the delay in analyzing this SEV2 problem was the Thanksgiving holiday and the weekend. That added four days right there.
If it's been a week since your last good backup, people start to get a little nervous... :-\
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