Timothy, I saw your post talking about having an A01 warm standby with Z03 CBU. That's similar to what my management is thinking, but without the warm standby. We have EMC storage and it we do synchronous mirroring from our main site to our DR site. Since that is all done via the EMC control units we don't need to have the system up for it. We do want to go to the DR site as needed to do minimal "connectivity" tests. For those we plan to just IPL the A01 system. Then, when we need to do "serious" DR tests we would activate the Z03 and IPL that. Basically, the whole purpose of this exercise is to determine how long it would take to be up and ready for those minimal "connectivity" tests.
Tom Kelman Enterprise Capacity Planner Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Timothy Sipples > Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:26 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Benchmarking the IPL > > Tom, > > I'm a little confused by your question. Reading between the lines, you > seem > to be describing IBM's standard Capacity Backup (CBU) offering as part of > your contract. CBU covers both actual disasters and a certain number of > rehearsals over the contract period. There are no additional IBM software > charges (beyond your normal charges) associated with CBU activations, > provided you're adhering to the terms of the CBU contract. > > What confuses me is why you'd be IPLing outside the CBU terms. Everything > you described seems like it would be covered as part of CBU, and if you > have a CBU capacity of Z03 then you'll be experiencing IPL times > associated > with the Z03 capacity (upon CBU activation). > > Could you elaborate a bit on what scenario(s) you have in mind? Thanks. > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > Resident Architect (Based in Singapore) > STG Value Creation and Complex Deals Team > IBM Growth Markets > E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ***************************************************************************** If you wish to communicate securely with Commerce Bank and its affiliates, you must log into your account under Online Services at http://www.commercebank.com or use the Commerce Bank Secure Email Message Center at https://securemail.commercebank.com NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any attached files are confidential. The information is exclusively for the use of the individual or entity intended as the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, printing, reviewing, retention, disclosure, distribution or forwarding of the message or any attached file is not authorized and is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail message in error, please advise the sender by reply electronic mail immediately and permanently delete the original transmission, any attachments and any copies of this message from your computer system. ***************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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