Re: The Insane Operator has struck again

On 6/2/2010 2:22 PM, Ron Hudson wrote:
> My "Insane Operator"* has struck again.. you know he is the Boss's son
> so he is un-fireable  but he somehow
>   tripped all the UPS's to the OFF state - all at once...
>
> Do I have to do anything to recover from this strange situation? Or does
> MVS handle is all for me?

MVS is fairly resilient, so generally it will recover. JES2 will 
rerun any batch jobs that were running (which may not be what 
you want). However, in really bad cases a write in progress can 
cause data loss, or sometimes (ask me how I know) cross-linked 
files that normal Windows cleanup cannot recover. The ground 
rule is the same as on real iron - if you need it, make sure you 
back it up. In Windows you can just copy the whole DASD 
directory to another disks (I have a 150GB USB external for 
that), and have needed to recover any number of times.

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT