On Friday, 11/11/2016 at 06:31 GMT, Scott Rohling <scott.rohl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok - in our case we are doing flashcopy within the same storage > subsystem..... we are not implementing PPRC but FLASHCOPY.
As far as IBM DS8000 is concerned, if you have Flashcopy, you also have Metro Mirror (PPRC), as both are part of the Copy Services (CS) feature. In fact, here are the function in each license type: Base function License (BF) ? Operating Environment License ? Logical Configuration support for FB (Open Systems) ? Thin Provisioning ? Easy Tier ? I/O Priority Manager Copy Services License (CS) ? IBM FlashCopy® ? Metro Mirror ? Global Mirror ? Metro/Global Mirror ? z/Global Mirror ? z/Global Mirror Resync ? Multi-Target PPRC z-Synergy Services License (zsS) ? FICON attachment ? PAV ? HyperPAV ? High-performance FICON (zHPF) ? IBM z/OS Distributed Data Backup To me, it's simpler and more cost-effective to get GDPS. The configurations include local HA with Hyperswap and flashcopy images (with zero data loss and no down time), as well as remote copy (Global Mirror) along with flashcopy images to allow DR testing while still maintaining local and remote HA. The important thing is that YOU don't support it. (Care and feeding of disk mirrors is not trivial.) ICKDSF and the CP FLASHCOPY family of commands are the only native functions in z/VM that manage Copy Services. I wish we had Copy Services Manager (CSM) for the CMS environment. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant Lab Services System z Delivery Practice IBM Systems & Technology Group ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
