Glen, I believe the recommendation for using Remote Copy products came from the OP's desire to do testing in the new site. TDMF is not real good at resynch.
I'm way out of date on TDMF but I thought that keeping 400 volumes synchronized used to cause CSA problems. Maybe that's fixed now. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Glenn Miller > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Options for moving data > > Others have already mentioned 'hardware-based' facilities like PPRC & XRC. > One aspect of those options that is sometimes overlooked is they are > chargeable features on the source ( for both facilities ) and target ( for > PPRC > only ). The XRC option also would require some 'configuration' considerations > related to whether the data would be 'pushed' or 'pulled' from the primary > site. The distance between the sites and your 'network conntection options' > may also limit your options. > > Also, others have already mentioned using the TDMF product. One option > that TDMF offers is to use TCP/IP to 'move' the data vs. ESCON/FICON > channels. I have used that option to 'move' more than 12TB ( about 2100 > volumes ) of data a fairly large distance ( Midwest USA to UK ). That option > took some tweaking, within TDMF V4 and the z/OS TCP/IP stack ( we were at > z/OS R7 ) but in the end, the 'move' was performed relatively easily, with > fairly > low pain. > > HTH > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
