When you create/reformat the CFRM couple data set, there is no CFRM policy. It must be (re)created from a driver system before the first DR IPL. (You could kludge it with multiple IPLs of the DR system, but you really don't want to go there.)
On the driver system, (re)create the CFRM policy you want to use--with the DR CFs defined and included in all structure PREFLISTs--and explicitly point to the new CFRM data set including DSN and VOL. Note: if you don't include DSN and VOL, the policy will land in the CFRM couple data set of the driver system; no good for the DR system. The new CFRM couple data set will now contain only one policy--the one you just (re)created. At the first IPL of the DR system, there will not be any active policy, so you need to name it in the COUPLExx member of PARMLIB that you IPL with: COUPLE SYSPLEX(xxx) PCOUPLE(x1) ACOUPLE(x2) CLEANUP(nn) INTERVAL(nn) --> CFRMPOL(new-policy) /* CFRM POLICY TO ACTIVATE IF NONE FOUND */ The CFRMPOL parameter tells the system which policy to activate if there is none already active at IPL. This is where you name the policy you (re)created from the driver system above. All other couple data sets, if mirrored, will contain the data they had when mirroring was broken. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote on 03/15/2006 01:30:49 PM: > I have a full test this weekend, so hopefully will have some of this ironed > out. I am going with a newly formatted CFRM dataset and retaining all the > other COUPLE datasets. > > If I use a new CFRM dataset, where is the CF policy information stored? I > was thinking it was stored in the XCF COUPLE dataset as how would z/OS know > how to format the CFRM dataset when coming up? I hope to come up in the new > environment and the structures are re-created in the new CF, but all other > COUPLE datasets are intact, e.g. DASD Logger files will retain their state. <snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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