Ron and Bruce, Actual SnapShotting (is that a word?) of the 150 volumes takes seconds to run. The rest of the time is involved in running the cleanup jobs (modifying system datasets, bringing volumes online/offline, IPLing the test LPAR, etc.
Ron, You said "Perhaps you're looking for the specific technology, rather than how other ways, means and costs meet your process requirement.". I would be interested in looking at other ways of being able to do this, but unfortunately cost is slightly prohibitive. The viewpoint I'm looking at is that the RVA is bought and paid for, and I would need to buy 3 TB of disk to replace it. With "the mainframe is going away so don't spend any money on it" mentality at my shop, I'm pretty much stuck where I'm at. That is unless somebody can convince me that for the maintenance costs on my RVA I can get 3 TB of disk along with near-instantaneous dataset and volume level replication software. If you can do that, I'm all ears! :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
