On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:26:56 -0500, George Henke <gahe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Here is what I thought was a dumb question until someone posed it to me >yesterday. > >Why have a separate QA LPAR and not just leave QA in the DEV LPAR? > >The more I tried to come up with a good reason, the more I could not find >one. > >Then I started to take the logic to its extreme and ask myself, "Why do we >have LPARs at all? > The reason we made a test LPAR seperate from production is to introduce new versions of z/OS, 3rd party, and subsystems like DB2 and CICS. Only you know your environment, but having test seperate here allows us to make and test changes more frequently than impacting production. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
