Tim 2:00 am for which timezone, and middle eastern countries do not find Sunday outages acceptable. 24x7 really means 24x7. Give me the version without an outage.
And it's not a new idea. The Sysprog I worked with in Singapore was doing this over 10 years ago on two frame Parallel Sysplex. Swing over to one LPAR country by country on Friday night, IPL the empty LPAR to the new Maint level, and then swing back country by country on Sunday night. > apply whatever software updates you want to the standby LPAR, declare a ~2 > minute "soft outage" at 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning (or whenever), and, at > that time, point all users over to the updated LPAR. That now becomes the ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
