Re: DR Failover

2019-05-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
Chiu Sent: Friday, May 10, 2019 10:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DR Failover I need to check with our account manager again but this is my understanding. We just replaced our DR mainframe with a Z14 ZR1. Part of the acceptance testing was running our full DR suite at the DR site

Re: DR Failover

2019-05-10 Thread Laurence Chiu
I need to check with our account manager again but this is my understanding. We just replaced our DR mainframe with a Z14 ZR1. Part of the acceptance testing was running our full DR suite at the DR site. So we activated a CBU which lasted 14 days I am told and ran our tests. The purchase of the ne

Re: DR Failover

2019-05-08 Thread Jim IBMMain
We had worked out "In Theory" how we would do it. About 18 months after we opened our second data center, Our Main Data Center needed to shutdown over a long weekend, for 100% shutdown power maintenance. After the Online's were shutdown Friday Night, We waited for all the DASD & Tape to sync

Re: DR Failover

2019-05-07 Thread Jackson, Rob
d be different . . . . First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2019 4:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DR Failover [External Email] (Resurrecting an old th

Re: DR Failover

2019-05-07 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
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 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

2017-06-05 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
wallowed 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 quest

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: DR Failover

2017-06-02 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 19:18:06 -0400, Edward Finnell wrote: >There were some really good user experiences on DR at SHARE. One memorable comment from a DR experience presentation at SHARE many years ago after (IIRC) a flood in Chicago took out a data center. The presenter said that the reason thing

Re: DR Failover

2017-06-02 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2017-06-02 o 00:24, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze: 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?

Re: DR Failover

2017-06-02 Thread Dana Mitchell
Our company actually declared a disaster after a flood in 1993 when faced with an extended power outage. We got to the hot site and began working on the restore when a large enough truck mounted generator was obtained, so we didn't actually have to go through with it. But it started me thinkin

Re: DR Failover

2017-06-01 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
cussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Tony Harminc > Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 6:10 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: (External):Re: DR Failover > > On 29 May 2017 at 11:02, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > > > So I'm wondering about other

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: DR Failover

2017-06-01 Thread Charles Mills
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward Finnell Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 4:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: DR Failover There were some really good user experiences on DR at SHARE. Think I was most impressed with Ryder's plan. They even had it down to who was taking

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: DR Failover

2017-06-01 Thread Edward Finnell
There were some really good user experiences on DR at SHARE. Think I was most impressed with Ryder's plan. They even had it down to who was taking care of sysprog families while they were busy putting the company back together. Doesn't hurt to be inventive. When we had a big F4 Tornado come

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: DR Failover

2017-06-01 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
st [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 3:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: DR Failover Never got traction on two of my questions, which are independent of technology. -- During a failover (test I would presume), who actua

Re: DR Failover

2017-06-01 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
ernal):Re: DR Failover On 29 May 2017 at 11:02, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > 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 yo

Re: DR Failover

2017-05-29 Thread Tony Harminc
On 29 May 2017 at 11:02, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > 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 dat

Re: DR Failover

2017-05-29 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 30/05/2017 1:02 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: 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 cente

Re: DR Failover

2017-05-29 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Jesse Robinson wrote: >What happens to data that gets created/updated during the test? You say you >resume production as if nothing had happened. But surely something did happen >during those hours of testing. This is why we have assiduously avoided >failover even during actual production outag

Re: DR Failover

2017-05-29 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
DU Subject: (External):Re: DR Failover Jesse Robinson wrote: >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

Re: DR Failover

2017-05-29 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Jesse Robinson wrote: >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? We have no choice.

Re: DR Failover

2017-05-29 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: We have used the DR procedure twice in controlled settings to move production from one data center to another, so we know it works I wonder how many orgs have done this not-so-simple test. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of w