I don't have any real answers, just some comments. One bank I worked for had as their disaster recovery a 370/158 computer left in the basement of the bank after the datacenter moved 4 blocks away. No I/O equipment. My last full time job, we paid for a hot site. We never did a disaster recovery test until 2004 (I think). Had a disaster struck our datacenter before then, it would have been interesting. After that, they never did another because the z/OS datacenter was closing.
I think a lot of the potential disasters are things that are totally unexpected. The problem several years ago in downtown Chicago comes to mind, when many of the buildings were shut down because of a hole between some unused underground passageways and the Chicago River. The possibility of a widespread nuclear war presents the possibility of almost all business and commerce shutting down. Even if your data was in the side of a mountain and safe, if all the banks are destroyed, and all of the refineries are destroyed, you won't get fuel for your generators and you won't have money to do anything. Hopefully that will never happen, but how do you prepare for it? Eric Bielefeld Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer Milwaukee, Wisconsin 414-475-7434 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
