Hi Ed, I have become curious. I know you run multiple Lpars at different levels of z/OS. It seem s unlikely to me that HSM is failing in all of them. And that you should be able to get your back-ups, at least temporarily form a working copy :)
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 12:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Changing PMR Severity (Was: Makes me love most of my z/OS > software vendors) > > On 11/30/2012 10:20 AM, McKown, John wrote: > > To me, and to every shop I've ever worked at, SEV 1 means "we're dead and > we are all staying here until we are working again." One time, this meant a > 36 hour shift for all 3 sysprogs. I was much younger then. > > The inability to run daily system backups doesn't, on the surface, seem to > rise > to the level of SEV1. (Your systems are not DOWN!) > > OTOH, if while waiting for a diagnosis/fix you lose an important data set or > even an entire DASD volume and don't have a suitable backup, things could > get > VERY painful VERY quickly. > > Maybe they need a SEV 1.5. ;) > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
