Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What we're missing is the ability to flash a set of mini disks as one
>atomic action. If you just go over the disks and flash them one at a
>time, in theory there is the risk of inconsistent backups. If you
>really want you can use LVM to suspend all writes and make all your
>flash copy actions, and then resume writing to disk again.

Well, that capability isn't that hard -- V/SPOOL (now part of 
CA-somethingorother-VM:Spool V/SEG-PLUS feature) has a FREEZE capability, and 
ISTR it was a few lines in the right place in CP to keep the guest from being 
dispatched.

Of course, for IBM to implement such a thing, they would probably (quite 
correctly) want to make it a much more visible thing, so that customers 
wouldn't FREEZE a guest, forget about it, and then open a SEV1 because their 
guest wouldn't run...

...phsiii

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