RE: system save

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another question is why a SAVSYS must be done in restricted state in
the first place.  We can save Security Data, Configuration Data
surely the most changed parts of the system.  What's so magical about
QSYS &c that a snapshot can't be taken while it's running?

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com



Kenneth wrote (in part):

> I still don't know why IBM can't incorporate a SAVSYS process in an IPL ...
>
> IPL to a certain point, and then while still in a restrictive state call the
> BU program specified in some new system value. The BU process would run
> SAVSYS and whatever else the user wanted to do in an unattended restrictive
> state, then when the process ends, continue with starting up the system
> using the QSTRUPPGM system value.
>
> I seems so simple to me... Does anyone care to speculate on why this
> presents such a technological challenge to IBM?
>
> Kenneth