Barbara, Thanks for the explanation. I think you have "hit the nail on the head" as to what caused our "outage". I don't really mind what GRS does, except that this "outage" (actually a slow down) gets a sev 1 from the end users which is "50 pain points". From what my manager says, this causes the bovine excrement to impact the air moving device in meetings. And, as long as I am as ignorant as I am (training? we don't need no stinkin' training!) about what can happen in a basic (not parallel) sysplex, then we are going to get "much pain". And this just give more ammo to the "the mainframe is a piece of crap" people. They have their "religion" and I have mine. Mine seems based a bit more on past history than theirs. But that doesn't matter. A bit like "political correctness" in the US. Is it any wonder that I am paranoid?
We pressed for a parallel sysplex, but it was "too expensive" and "not worth the cost" ($175,000 US for a CFL was what I was told we were quoted. Firm price, no futher discounts, pay up or forget it.) This means that I cannot put up a SFM to automate any kind of recovery. Has anybody tried doing SFM-like recovery using an automated operator? Can I reply "DOWN" to the XCF message that comes up after a V XCF,sysname,OFF even before I do a "system reset" on the HMC for that LPAR? That seems to have been the "hang up" point. But I am not sure because I am, supposedly, on vacation this week. I am not a happy camper. -- Maranatha! John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
