You can not believe how many "TAPES" critical to the success of a DR test have been lost or forgotten. The major one, the standalone IPL utility tape.
BTW the business that I am in today is DR/BC and Virtual Tape Appliance. My z/Appliance device emulates FICON attached 3480, 3490 and 3590 tapes drives and has an integrate mirroring facility for up to 8 locations. Why eight? One in-house, cloud like dropbox, AWS, Azure, etc., duplicate company owned data center, or hosted services ( more than one if needed ). Check out https://www.atsmigrations.com for more information. Are you still in the DC area? Take care, Paul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
