I said long ago, during a presentation I gave at SHARE in August 2003, just after I had done an ESP test on Flashcopy Dataset, that IBM needs to build something into ISMF or something else so you don't have to sit there and do FCQUERY all day or run ICKDSF FLASHCPY jobs until the cows come home. It appears they haven't listened in over 3 years.
___________________________________________ Jim Petersen MVS - Lead Systems Engineer Home Depot Technology Center 1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753 www.homedepot.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512-977-2615 direct 512-977-2930 fax 210-859-9887 cell This message may contain confidential information. The information contained in this message and any attachments are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or other use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete all copies of this message -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Krueger Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How long does Flashcopy really take? Hal you must issue the FCQUERY commands or use ICKDSF FLASHCPY to see status - but the targets are usable after the complete message - you can use them . If there is a change on the source which is not yet copied to the target it will be copied to target before overwriting the source. The timing depends on a lot of factors - how many application IO are running , are you flashin in the same rank (should not) or cross rank - as well as on the level of microcode - there has been significant improvements in the past months . You may see from 50 MB (Copy same rank and running applications) to several 100 MB when running multiple ranks with no application io . Frank Krueger We just flashed a number of volumes. The flash function reports complete in a second or two, but the physical copy will take a while. There were 110 mod 3 volumes, and 40 were mod 27's. About 1.2 tb. Is there any way to tell when the physical copy completes and the target volumes are usable? This is a DS8100 (2107-821). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
