You might want to ask CA OPS/MVS about this process. I found the support group very helpful in crafting or helping with this type of question.
I would think an XCF message indicating a system is down or going down would be broadcast. That OPS/MVS on SYSTEM B could see it an react. Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of mf db > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 2:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Load Balancing between two LPARS in same Plex > > Hi lizette, > > Thanks for your email. We are in Parallel Sysplex and we do have OPS/MVS tool > installed on both(APPN Shared). > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Do you have any tools? CA OPS/MVS, Tivoli AF/OPER, etc? > > > > Is this a sysplex, parallel sysplex, monoplex? > > > > > > Have you looked on CBTTAPE.ORG and determined if any of the tools > > there could meet your needs? > > > > You can have a member in PROCLIB that will start-up the tools. But > > something would need to issue the start command if there is a fail over. > > > > There is also the ARM or SFW policies in XCF you may want to review. > > > > This link may provide some ideas > > > > https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/servers_eserver_zseries_libra > > ry_whitepapers_pdf_availchk_parsys.pdf > > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245346.pdf > > > > > > Try going to www.redbooks.ibm.com and search on sysplex. There are > > probably additional manuals that might give you ideas. > > > > Lizette > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mf db > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:53 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Load Balancing between two LPARS in same Plex > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am in process creating a new LPAR as a Backup for exsiting LPAR > > > image > > in same > > > Plex. Ours is a very small shop catering Trainings and other leased > > connection. > > > > > > There are certain Services like TSO,VTAM,TCPIP which will be always > > > kept > > active > > > in Backup LPAR. > > > > > > There are some Products like DB2,CICS,Other Products which i do not > > > want > > to run > > > them instead want to keep inactive. Moment the Primary LPAR1 fails > > > or > > goes on > > > outage the products like DB2 or CICS or other product should have > > Signaling > > > process where the inactive products can be activated automatically > > > once > > the > > > primary LPAR fails. > > > I understand a manual intervention can be used to activate but is > > > there > > a automated > > > approach for this ? > > > > > > Any Suggestion or advises are much appreciated. The Idea is not to > > duplicate all the > > > Services instead making LPAR2 as backup server, So that the > > > Workloads are managed efficiently without the need of adding more > > > CPU to the existing infrastructure. > > > > > > Peter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
