The easiest option would be to create a new environment and volume(s)
for test and development and IPL to the new volume(s), leaving the
production alone, and disable some volumes if you need to reclaim
space.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 1:16 PM Michael Babcock <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We have a 3 system plex, with two of those systems, DEV and PROD, in a
> JES2 MAS.   We had an incident recently where a development job got into
> a loop and used up all spool.  This in turn, caused our PROD system to
> come to, basically, a screeching halt.
>
> Management wants to investigate removing PROD from the MAS.
>
> Beyond the obvious cons below, what else am I missing?  Will a cold
> start be required?
>
> CONS:
> 1.  No longer monitor production jobs from DEV
> 2.  User's will need to logon to production to check on production jobs
> 3.  Significant changes to desk procedures
> 4.  May require changes to production jobs and/or CA7 (convert from
> SYSAFF to ROUTE XEQ)
>
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