More from our DR experience. Although we own our DR environment, DR LPARs including ICFs are supported by CBU. When we IPL a DR system for the first time, the ICF LPARs are reinitialized, i.e. they have no content.
I may have misspoken earlier about couple data sets. We use a mirrored copy of the sysplex couple data set, which remembers which policies were in effect at failover. We do use a new CFRM couple data set with a newly created/stored 'POLICYDR'. At IPL time, XCF notices the discrepancy between previous POLICY1/2/3 and the CPOUPLExx specification of POLICYDR and prompts for which one to use. Since the ICF is empty, that historical info must come from the mirrored sysplex data set. I cannot predict what would happen if both old and new policies had the same name. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 11:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: What casues IPL/XCF to read the CFRM data set for the policy ? I for one would be curious what IBM tells you, I'd like to think if the CF(s) have not been powered off and or are NON-VOLATILE the policies are stored in the CF(s) and read from the CF, if a POR was performed on a CF's then the COUPLE datasets are read. In my case unfortunately both my CF's are in the same CEC . please, if you can, let us know what IBM said. ----- Original Message ----- From: "J Ellis" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 12:49:01 PM Subject: Re: What casues IPL/XCF to read the CFRM data set for the policy ? The Global didn't wander, good thought, I checked to make sure. we restored the CFRM data sets back a couple of months and they all have the incorrect info in them policy wise, bad serial number/device type. so the systems have been running on the first one we came up on. It must keep a copy of the current policy in the CF itself, else we would have a failure on the first IPL we did. we have a PMR open with IBM, i've asked them to explain where all the current/active policy is kept, where it is read from and the sequence, and what could have caused the system to suddenly decide it needed to go the data set and get a 'fresh' copy of the policy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
