On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 22:32:22 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >Just to clarify a few points here. The old DASD we're moving off >of is not crusty ancient tired iron: it's DS8800 (2424). The new >DASD is DS8886 (2834). The motivation for moving is primarily >business (fiscal), not technical.
Are you using Exended Address Volumes? EAV volumes can hold a terabyte of data, and most data sets can go in the cylinder-managed space on an EAV. >We have millions of customers who are being convertedoto >paperless billing, so more and more of them access the system >more and more often at all hours of every day. There is virtually >no time when all data bases happen to be closed. Closing them >is not impossible, but it constitutes a 'total outage' to Customer >Service. I think that FDRPAS and FDRMOVE can handle the migration without downtime, while consolidating to fewer, larger volumes. And I think that there are other tools that can also be used. I don't know how well these tools work in a parallel Sysplex environment. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
