I tell the DR vendor assistant to IPL device xxxx that I have my initial sysres backup tape loaded on. I run ONE standalone DDR to restore MY sysr es and then IPL my sysres to restore the rest of the system. Our MVS people use the vendor's floor system to load a PDS of job control information and th en modify and submit jobs to do their restores. My initial standalone DDR ta kes less time than their load and setup of their first job. I considered load ing my programs into the vendor's floor VM system, but thought that modifying
the directory to include my DR service virtual machines would probably ta ke just as long as the DDR of my sysres that already has the servers defined , the minidisk with all the programs and the tape catalog of all the backup s I need to restore. /Tom Kern On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:27:49 -0500, Steve Gentry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do you IPL the tape? Bare metal or 2nd level? >Steve G. > >Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> >06/08/2006 10:52 AM > >I call this Psuedo-standard labels because of the lack of HDR1, EOF1, EO V >labels. This has worked well enough for at least 12 years of successful >Disaster Recovery exercises. The only problem I have hit is remembering to >IPL the tape drive twice to get to my standalone DDR program that leads my >sysres backup. >
