Along with EA, you can still split your CDSs and go multi-clustering. The advantage: Separate clusters reduce backup processing time by allowing parallel operations. In addition, if only one cluster is damaged or lost, the recovery time to forward recover this one cluster would be reduced.
Terry Traylor charlesSCHWAB TIS Mainframe Storage Management Remedy Queue: tis-hs-mstg (602) 977-5154 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Wickman Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DFHSM CDSs in extended format Thanks all, I think we will go with the extended addressing route to get pass the 4GB limit. And since we are a monoplex, the vsam rls is not an issue. Mike Wickman <font size="1"> <div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'> </div> "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system." </font> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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