The ones we did in the last '20' years was to test SAD.
In the old days, you needed a SAD for IMS restart after a system crash (IIRC).

Kees.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Edward Gould
> Sent: 29 September, 2017 1:50
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Last SAD (was: DLIB volume for SAD)
> 
> > On Sep 28, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Art Gutowski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > "Steely.Mark" <[email protected]> asked:
> >
> >> A little off topic - when is the last time anyone  had  to perform a
> SAD ?  I haven’t done one in 20+ years.
> >
> > We've taken at least a couple in the last 4 years.  I don't recall the
> exact circumstances (lots of brush fires early in the transition), but
> on at least one occasion, IIRC, we were still working through firewall
> issues and had a hard time getting the dump to IBM.
> >
> > Art Gutowski
> > General Motors, LLC
> 
> Mark,
> Although its gotten a *LOT* better, I would guess maybe 1 a year is an
> average. When MVS first came out we were doing at least 1 every two
> days.
> 
> Ed
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