>He issued a route to all of our systems to vary the devices off, but did not >check to ensure that the volumes was offline to all systems. One volume went >pending becuase there was a dataset online to CICS. He completed the initialization and the VTOC was corrupted. This is not the first time this has happened and now management wants to put controls in place to prevent this from happening again. They prefer some type of automation. Has anyone else ever had this problem and how did you fix it? Or do you have a solution
At the risk of sounding facetious (or nasty), I think a lot of the solution would be to to hire a new storage admin, who will check before doing. Years ago, I had a VP who had a term for this: "incomplete staff-work". - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
