On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 18:08:46 +0000, Pommier, Rex <[email protected]> wrote:

>The rest of our third party vendors either don't even need a DR key 
>or they just provide it as a courtesy for running a DR test.

Contracts should always be part of each DR review because a courtesy can be 
revoked at any time without warning. It should clearly describe DR testing and 
actual DR. You don't want to find out during an actual DR that your emergency 
grace period is 2 weeks but your company needs more time to sign a new 
contract. You have enough on your plate without adding licenses to the mess.  

>Our DR/backup process is that we have a second site that we are 
>doing full disk replication of our DS8K (async) to our second datacenter.

As an FYI, disk replication doesn't take into account logical units of work 
(e.g. database transactions and VSAM).

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