Eric, For your 2nd LPAR, have you considered simply cloning the existing system and disabling the products that may cause you grief with your licenses or MIPS usage? I think it will make your Basic Sysplex a lot easier to build and maintain in the long run.
You've already figured the need to share UCATs, and keeping the Production Volumes edited out of that system stop any accidental access. If you don't use DUMPCONDITIONING it still means that datasets on the FC target volumes can be accessed accidentally, so you may want to disconnect unnecessary catalogs, and remove alias associations. This is the problem with the 2nd LPAR backup method - it's an accident waiting to happen. I guess you have looked at DFSMShsm FRBACKUP. If not, you may want to have a look, but the applicability will depend on how much of your data is SMS managed, and whether you wish to use FCV2 consistency groups (still appear to unsupported for FRBACKUP). DUMPCONDITIONING, is something I think you may want to have a look at it. Seeing as FDR is a complete functional replacement for DFSMSdss I believe it also supports this. You will find that you can accomplish everything you want to do from a single system. Setting up a 2nd LPAR for backup was something a few shops did back in the early days of Snapshot, TimeFinder and Shadowimage, but DUMPCONDITIONING with FlashCopy was developed to get around the need for a backup LPAR. Ipso facto you no longer need a 2nd LPAR if you have FlashCopy compatible products. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 5:35 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Info on Setting Up an Lpar for Flashcopy > > Thanks to all that replied. Since I got home, and looked at a bunch of > emails, I'll just reply to this one. Don - I put in a request on your > internet site for more information. I'll also call FDR and get info on > their > product. I suspect that unless these products are really inexpensive > that we won't get either one. > > One of the things that no one picked up on, in my original post quoted > below, I wanted some help with setting up the Lpar to do this. I have > questions about what needs to be in the system. My boss wants a 1 > pack system. We run a basic sysplex in ring mode with only 2 lpars > since we don't have a coupling facility or processor, and definitely > don't > want to spend the money for one. I know I would need Zara, our tape > manager, and I would need access to the catalog that the output > tapes are created on. > > I've built RESCUE systems before, and still have my JCL, but those > systems were mostly for IPLing and correcting parmlib members, etc. I > didn't even have a tape management system on it. Any concerns for > building this type of system would be appreciated. > > Eric > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 15:24:44 -0500, Don Bolton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Eric, > > > >If you would like to automate the flash and backup process please > review the > >link below. Opentech Systems has automated this process for many > of our > >customers whether you want to process the volumes online or offline > with our > >DASD Backup Supervisor product. > > > >http://www.opentechsystems.com/dbs.php > > > >Regards, > >Don > > > >Don Bolton > >Director Technical Services > >www.OpentechSystems.com > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf > >Of Eric Bielefeld > >Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 9:59 AM > >To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > >Subject: Info on Setting Up an Lpar for Flashcopy > > > >We just installed a new Shark DS8100 with Flashcopy. I was looking > for > >information on setting up an Lpar to copy all of the Flashed disks to > tape. > >We back up all of our DASD every week. We would like to be able to > mount > >the flashed copies in a separate Lpar using the same volsers as the > >original, and then back them up. I have searched for documentation > on > >setting up Lpars to do just that, and haven't found anything. We > want a > >simple Lpar, if possible using a one pack system. We use Zara for > tape > >management. > > > >Eric > >-- > >Eric Bielefeld > >Systems Programmer > >Washington University > >St Louis, Missouri > >314-935-3418 > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
