> We are in the process of implementing ADSM and are concerned with the disaster
> recovery features of ADSM especially, making tapes to be sent offsite.  Does
> anyone have experience with this?  If so, I would like to hear about your
> experiences and procedures for doing so.

I am implementing disaster recovery with ADSM V2 for MVS and DFSMSrmm for
managing tapes. So I have to define a new  "devclass"(ADSM)  with another
high-level-qualifier for tape datasets and a vital record
specification(DFSMSrmm) for those tape datasets.

 That's not too difficult, but that's not the whole story. When a tape is to be
moved offsite, DFSMSrmm manages this for me, but it doesn't tell ADSM anything
about it. I have to change the location for all volumes in ADSM MANUALLY (or I
ask rmm via rexx, build a jobstream for ADSM and submit it).

 The next problem is to make synchronized backups from storagepools and the
database. I prefer to back up the stgpool first and when this has finished, I
want to back up the database. But how? When I use a macro, ADSM starts backing
up the stgpool and after that, he starts backing up the database, while backing
up stgpool is still running. I have to define two independent schedules with a
little time(1-3h?) between.

If anyone has better solutions, please tell me.

Roger Hohmann

MVS Support, MAN Gutehoffnungshutte AG
Bahnhofstr 66, 46145 Oberhausen
Germany
email:101574.1736 AT compuserve DOT com