> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Rob Schramm > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 9:01 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: SYSPLEX distance > > SFM and planning for what your surviving system should always be done. And > yes early on there was a failure of one of the two dark fiber connections > and the sysplex timers were not connected properly to allow for a continued > service. > > Planning planning planning.
To which you should add testing testing testing. And once the developers of the plan have succeeded in making it work, it should be tested again with many of the least experienced people in the organization. Murphy will guarantee that they will be the only ones available when it really hits the fan. (It is amazing how differently a pro and a rookie read the same set of instructions.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
