I'd like to suggest an alternative recovery strategy. Once upon a time it made sense to devote a tape or two to standalone restore. We kept a couple of cartridges in a drawer just in case. Two problems evolved over time.
1. What would we restore? There are so many different components required to get a system running. We would need an IPLable resvol, a RACF volume, a JES volume; a PARMLIB, PROCLIB, and who knows what else. Just to get a system capable of accepting logons. Missing just one of those could be insurmountable. 2. Tape technology has totally transformed. I haven't held a cartridge in my hand for years. What would I do with one anyway? Tape here is completely virtual except for a few 'real drives' that hold data offloaded from virtual. There is literally no place to insert and read a DSS recovery volume. Instead of standalone restore, plan to recover a system rather than a volume or two. You don't need to restore sysres. You should have at least two sysres volumes anyway that you swap between for maintenance. Would you really lose both of them? IPL from the alternate. What you really need is a single volume for critical components: master catalog, RACF, spool, PROC/PARMLIBs, whatever it takes to get a sysprog logged on to run actual recovery jobs. It does not have to be pretty, just minimally functional for a SME who knows how to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. That volume is always available and can be tested periodically to make sure it works. Just a thought. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Anthony Thompson > Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2016 09:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Bulk] Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How?? > > Not sure if this helps... we don't have any such advanced gear. > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1015538 > > Ant. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe > Sent: Friday, 5 February 2016 12:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How?? > > On 2/4/2016 7:17 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > > Is there any way to log in to issue a mount command within the tape library? > > Not that I can find. http://publibfp.dhe.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a3205604.pdf > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
