IPL with future date

2006-09-21 Thread Jim McAlpine
We have a FLEX-ES box with a number of instances (sort of like lpars) and I would like to ipl one of the instances with a date some time in the future to do some testing. However, that instance would touch catalogs from our production instance which would be running with the current date. Is

Re: IPL with future date

2006-09-21 Thread Brown, James Alan
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IPL with future date We have a FLEX-ES box with a number of instances (sort of like lpars) and I would like to ipl one of the instances with a date

Re: IPL with future date

2006-09-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
What kind of testing are you trying to do? There are date simulator products like HOURGLASS or I think Compuware has one. With these products your applications can pick a date and time to run in and not affect the rest of the environment. Lizette -- Snip

Re: IPL with future date

2006-09-21 Thread Rob Scott
-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: 21 September 2006 07:58 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IPL with future date We have a FLEX-ES box with a number

Re: IPL with future date

2006-09-21 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 12:58 +0100, Jim McAlpine wrote: Is this recipe for disaster or will I get away with it. Yes. No. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: IPL with future date

2006-09-21 Thread Daniel A. McLaughlin
We did an extensive date progression test for Y2K. We went to the DR site, rented extra time, and played with it for a week. I'm fairly certain we got extended keys from our vendors to avoid that problem. Once we started moving forward, though, we never fell back. Beware the SIBW!!!

Re: IPL with future date

2006-09-21 Thread Zohar, Meir
-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IPL with future date On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 12:58 +0100, Jim McAlpine wrote: Is this recipe for disaster or will I get away with it. Yes. No. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: IPL with future date

2006-09-21 Thread Walt Farrell
On 9/21/2006 7:58 AM, Jim McAlpine wrote: We have a FLEX-ES box with a number of instances (sort of like lpars) and I would like to ipl one of the instances with a date some time in the future to do some testing. However, that instance would touch catalogs from our production instance which