(Resurrecting an old thread) We're being 'urged' to demonstrate that we can fail over to our internal DR site, run for a while, then fail back. As I indicated previously, we've done countless short tests but never allowed production to run in DR; hence no need to fail back. My question here is not technical. Our DR site (self-owned and managed) runs normally with a single CP supported by enough CBU to run production. We have purchased several full power tests to enable up to 10 days of testing per outing. If you have a similar setup,
1. Have you performed an extended full-power test? 2. Does the 10-day testing limit come into play? 3. From our perspective, we are only testing, but we would be dealing with real production data in and out. Will this lead to a contractual conundrum? . . 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 robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of van der Grijn, Bart (B) Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 5:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: DR Failover The people doing the MF recovery vary by test. It's typically someone on the operational side of the house, with the folks that maintain the procedures riding shotgun. Our sysprog team is geographically dispersed (US/NL/PRC) so chances are there's someone left that wasn't swallowed by the giant crater. Bart -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2017 6:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DR Failover Never got traction on two of my questions, which are independent of technology. -- During a failover (test I would presume), who actually performs the DR procedure whatever it is? Sysprogs, operators, production control folks, or someone else? Has anyone dared to bring in a non-technical person like a manager? This question is crucial to business resiliency because, depending the reason for failover, your top technical folks may be indisposed for an extended duration. -- If you stayed in the DR environment long enough to have captured/updated live customer data, how did you eventually return to the production environment? This question is crucial to business resiliency because at some point down the line, you have to return or, as the poem goes, settle in for a long winter's nap. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
