Ward, Mike S wrote:
Innovation has a product called FDRPAS that can be rented that does the copies while the system is up and running. We have used it several times and it works great.
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I have no experience with FDRPAS or its IBM counterparts (like TDMF, if I recall correctly). However, unless they are able to talk to devices in subchannel sets other than SCS0, none would solve Skip's problem.
I'm afraid I don't know whether any of them talk to devices outside SCS0, and nobody I know who might be able to answer that question seems to be around this afternoon.
I am not really a Storage guy, so I don't know whether it fits the bill from an ease-of-use (or cost) point of view, but as PPRC secondaries and FlashCopy targets *can* be defined in SCSs other than zero, one could for example potentially establish (for example) the needed PPRC pairs, let PPRC do the copies, and then take the primaries offline. Whether this would work, and whether it could even be done with HyperSwap so there was no required outage, is another question I'd need those same people for...the ones that aren't around today, I mean.
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