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My presumption is that a data-sharing partner "myserverb" is up and running on 
LPARB. In this case, the transfer is pretty much unnoticeable.

After the transfer of the DVIPA, all new traffic will be routed to 
LPARB/myuserverb. LPARA/myservera will 'wither on the vine.
If LPARA/myservera are shut down too quickly, any users connection to 
LPARA/myservera will be terminated prematurely and cause a perceived outage.



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Some situations may require manual intervention.  That that could be done 
through automation.

Some situations may involve noticeable outage outage to the user.


It all depends on how it is setup and how you want to move the task.

Say you have LPARA and LPARB and task "myserver" normally runs on LPARA.

Do you want it to move to LPARB only when LPARA is shutdown and move back when 
LPARA comes back up?

Or do you want to be able to move "myserver" to LPARB while LPARA is still up?

Or a both?

Do you want to prevent "myserver" from running on both at the same time?

You may want to read up on how  TCPIP's Sysplex distributor works.  Although it 
is designed so to have multiple server tasks up at the same time, you can use 
it and just have one task up and running.normally move it from one LPAR to 
another as needed.


On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 11:51:04 +0000, Allan Staller <[email protected]> wrote:

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>I agree, the secondary application must be running on the other LPAR.
>
>I have physically tested this is a prior life and the transition is 
>(apparently) seamless to the end user.
>In that environment, although the cutover was triggered manually, it 
>worked flawlessly, I also (in that environment) simulated an OSA failure by 
>"pulling the plug" on the specific Ethernet cable involved.
>This (again) worked flawlessly, and (apparently) unnoticed by the end 
>user,
>
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>> The difference iis n starting/stopping the application is a service 
>> interruption to the end user.
>> The DVIPA activate/deactivate would be seamless to the end user
>
>DVIPA activate/deactivate isn't seamless. First, it would require the 
>application be running on the second LPAR running in standby mode. Second, 
>current connections are interrupted unless the application has been designed 
>to circumvent the problem. Third, you still have a time frame where the 
>application is still unreachable albeit very small hopefully.
>
>Each situation is different and a decision about which method best solves the 
>problem must be made. The OP said his application can only be active on one 
>LPAR. In that case, using activate/deactivate would not provide an advantage 
>although it would work equally as well..
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