>Last summer we had a DS6800 go casters up. IBM couldn’t fix it. We ended up 
>restoring everything to a DS8800.   

So is the DS8800 a more robust unit? I'm beginning to think the DS6800 on this 
system is a lemon.
 
> doubt you can IPL from tape because you don't have some of the requisite 
> volumes, e.g., page packs, available.  In your environment I would perform 
> standalone restores  until I had an IPLable system. Then I would IPL and 
> restore whatever is left. 

The UTILITY UTILTAPE command will create a bootable tape which will start a DDR 
session so that volumes backed up with DDR can be restored. 

Karl

 

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