RE: Professional opinions: JRNRCV in separate ASP

Generally performance is NOT the reason for putting your journal
receivers into a different ASP, but security.  That is if you loose
several drives in a raid set in your main ASP, you may have to restore
the entire ASP from tape.  Now if your receivers are in a different ASP,
you can re-apply all the transactions from the last back up and loose no
data.  If they are in the same ASP, you have lost the protection of
journaling.

Why do you journal your files?  For commit control or auditing only and
not for data recovery? 


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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Haase, Justin C.
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 6:06 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Professional opinions: JRNRCV in separate ASP

Good morning, all.

Curious as to the current "state of the systems," so to speak - back in
the day it was common practice to put journal receivers in a separate
ASP as to not affect the disk of the system ASP.

So my question is - how's everyone setting up new environments these
days?  With the speedier disk is it really making that large of a
difference?  Is it better just to add the disks you'dve used in the
second ASP to *SYSBAS and benefit from the additional arms and space?
Thoughts?