It kinda depends on how your work is separated. We have a production LPAR and a development/test LPAR. We IPL production and off it goes whether test is up or not; there's no waiting for test.
Jon <snip> If you have one machine, and it crashes or loses power, then your whole sysplex crashes, and your outage is probably longer because you have to start 2 Lpars and connect them before starting your work back up. Granted, if one Lpar crashes, the other will keep going. </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