Skip has talked about this in the past and in SHARE sessions. What we have done for years is use a different "newly formatted" sysplex couple and CFRM couple data sets that we IPL with during DR. This has also been discussed.
Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:39:36 -0500, Field, Alan C. <[email protected]> wrote: >Mark, I don't know but we used to run into the same problem at DR until >we started defining our CFRM policy with 4 CFs. > >CF1 and CF2 are the ones at home. CF3 and CF4 are the ones at DR. > >I define the policies with a preflist of (CF1,CF2,CF3,CF4). > >Now when we're at home or DR IPL proceeds without a hitch. > >I think I got the idea for doing this from a post on this list a few >years ago. > >Alan > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Mark Jacobs >Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 09:31 >To: [email protected] >Subject: SYSPLEX/CFRM Couple dataset(s) relationship > >At our last DR exercise we had an incorrect CPU serial number in our >CFRM policy which resulted in a failure in our IPL. We fixed the CFRM >policy and re-wrote it replacing the incorrect policy (same policy >name). > >When we re-ipled, the system was still looking for the CF lpar with the >incorrect CPU serial number even though the CFRM policy with the old >serial number wasn't in the CFRM dataset. We couldn't get the system to >IPL until I deleted and redefined the SYSPLEX couple dataset. > >Does the sysplex couple dataset retain information about the CFRM policy > >in use other than the name of the last used CFRM policy? > >-- >Mark Jacobs >Time Customer Service >Tampa, FL >---- > >It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools >are so ingenious. > > -- Robert Heinlein > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
