That would have been a decision way above my pay grade.. My manager and his government counterpart were there at the time, and my responsibilities were on the technical side. I asked SG to configure a virtual machine with our home CPUID and continued the test.
We certainly let the vendor know that it was unacceptable; if the government took legal action I was not informed (I would have celebrated.) BTW, that was less effort than the tapes that our boss decreed lost and the personnel that our boss decreed dead, which I considered not only a fair part of the test but absolutely essential. In a real disaster, all bets are off, and if your recovery plan doesn't cover contingencies then you're SOL. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gorlinsky [p...@atsmigrations.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2022 9:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SYSPLEX / SYSNAME / SMFID stability Hello Seymour, The best thing to do is to turn this over to the lawyers. It is a breach of contract and the vendor needs to be held accountable. I have done two DR tests in the past thirty days and several of the vendors DONT require and immediately Key change. However, one vendor does and the customer has several products from them. Ask the real question... what would have happened in a LIVE situation? This is why the lawyers need to be aware of the potential damage they can do to your business. A DR test is also a test of the VENDORS ability to provide their contractual obligations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
