News of the British Airways FUBAR has sparked discussion about DR failover and why it took so long execute. If it ever was executed; the duration of the outage suggests to me that repairs in the main data center were accomplished before or lieu of actual failover. We ourselves set out around Y2K to provide for mainframe DR a decade before we acquired GDPS. Using SDM/XRC and entirely homegrown procedures, we adopted the goal to enable *anyone* to execute the failover script-even a manager! Or at least anyone who could navigate a 3270 keyboard. ;-(
We've tested countless times over the intervening years, but we've never experienced an actual emergency failover. We have used the DR procedure twice in controlled settings to move production from one data center to another, so we know it works, but the ultimate test of unscheduled failover has never been confronted. So I'm wondering about other shops' experience with mainframe DR. Has it ever been necessary to keep the business running? Who orchestrated the procedure? How long did it take? And finally, how did you get production back to the primary data center? . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office <===== NEW [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
