Bruce, I agree with what you say, but Rex specifically said "rebuilding a test system" which to me implied refreshing a set of volumes rather than a dataset level operation.
Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bruce Black > Sent: Sunday, 5 March 2006 3:35 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: IXFP No Longer Supported > > > > > And 15 minutes start to finish - it takes that long??? > We find that when using the various instant replication technologies > (FlashCopy, SnapShot, etc), the time to allocate and catalog the output > datasets (if they don't already exist) is far longer than the copy time, > especially for a large number of datasets. > > -- > Bruce A. Black > Senior Software Developer for FDR > Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 > personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.innovationdp.fdr.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
