Tony I am not familiar with Flashcopy, so I have not made any posts on this thread.
However, from a design viewpoint, here is what you might consider. When you are ready to cut to production, snap a copy or backup of all the volumes including the ICF catalog. Perform your conversion and if all goes well then you have no need of the copy you made. If for any reason you need to start over, turn the copy job around and copy the backup volumes to the production volumes. This will overlay all the work you have done, put things back to where they were when you started and all your catalog issues will be solved. Try to implement in production again. If you still have failures, you always have the beginning point to fall back on. The main drawback I see to this is that it will take more time to copy the backup data and overlay the production volumes than simply varying devices offline and online. However, you never touch the backup volumes, except to read them in during a restore operation to get back to where you started. I do not know if the Shark supports this or not, but at EMC these backup volumes could be used as input to the restore operation without ever bringing them online to the host. I hope I have actually understood your plans and desires. From a DB2 perspective, you should have no problems with the procedure you have outlined assuming that you include all the volumes that are touched by DB2. This would include the BSDS data sets, the active logs and archive logs if they are on disk, the DB2 catalog, the ICF catalog and the application data. I hope this has helped, fell free to call or e-mail anytime. Tom Moulder 817 741-5549 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Wiggett Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Cloning DB2 using Flashcopy I don't want to appear rude but did you read my last post? I am NOT 'CLONING' the environment !!!!!!! Regards Tony No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.7/816 - Release Date: 5/23/2007 3:59 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
