Re: BRMS - full save with least amount of restricted time

Hi Jim

Ok, that;s interesting regarding QUSRSYS - must have been something I
was doing at the time. I've tended to deal with QGPL and QUSRSYS as
separate cases ever since so I may revisit that where there is a need.

Agreed about the recovery test - too many people want to just tick the
box that they've backed up , whether it can be recovered or not.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Jim Oberholtzer
<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Evan,

I can't speak to your experiences but I have done dozens of recovery
tests and I've only run into trouble with QUSRSYS or QGPL on very
limited cases, and not affecting TCP.

*SYNCLIB is a beast in that you have to get all the libraries in the
list to checkpoint at the same time. Important for some folks but if
you do not have user database objects (meaning non-IBM) in either
QUSRSYS or QGPL, I would not include them in the synch point. Saving
QUSRSYS and QGPL with a synch point of *LIB has always been successful
in the tests I have run. Again there may be some anomalies but as a
general rule the save works quite well.

A better reason to test your recovery I can't come up with. If you have
not tested your recovery, you don't have a reliable back up, regardless
of what the system says it put on tape, virtual or physical.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects