Dave / Rob,
Thanks for the details, and I should have been more specific.
Just clarifying, a planned outage is scheduled for the application upgrade.
A role swap occurs from Primary to Backup.
On the Primary, the application upgrade
1) creates a temp library,
2) copies PF from normal production library to this temp library,
3) deletes the LF and PF in the production library,
4) recreates new PF and LF, with either added/or dropped fields.
5) copies the data back from temp library to production library using either CPYF map/drop or custom program.
Can MIMIX can handle this or will this be down time and done outside of MIMIX.
Paul
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 3:26 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Can HA/DR solutions handle an application uprade that includes changes to PF and LF?
Perhaps there's some reason you need to be vague on what kind of files you're talking about. I'll try to dance around that...
When working with a HA/DR solution based on replication, like Mimix, you may not select to replicate everything. For example, you may not replicate the unmodified vendor software but you may replicate the library containing your mods. Of course the last upgrade we did was from BPCS405CD to ERPLX so that was pretty major, and it's been awhile. This involved new library names and whatnot. Including our data libraries.
If you're talking about various IBM files, well, you may not replicate stuff in certain libraries there also. For example, when we upgaded the OS on GDIHQ2 a few days before upgrading the primary on GDIHQ1 we didn't want IBM's mods to file structures being moved in between.
We're rather picky on some of these libraries.
Can you get a rough idea from this snippet?
Data ------System 1 Information------ Process
Group System 1 Library Object Type Type
...
SYSMGT GDIHQ QUSRSYS *ALL *ALL *INCLD
SYSMGT GDIHQ QUSRSYS *ALL *MSGQ *EXCLD
SYSMGT GDIHQ QUSRSYS *ALL *OUTQ *INCLD
SYSMGT GDIHQ QUSRSYS FAXD0* *DTAQ *EXCLD
SYSMGT GDIHQ QUSRSYS FAXD0* *OUTQ *EXCLD
SYSMGT GDIHQ QUSRSYS PEGGYPRT *OUTQ *EXCLD
SYSMGT GDIHQ QUSRSYS P1 *OUTQ *INCLD
SYSMGT GDIHQ QUSRSYS Q* *ALL *EXCLD
SYSMGT GDIHQ QUSRSYS QAQQINI *FILE *INCLD
...
Rob Berendt
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Date: 01/21/2016 02:47 PM
Subject: Can HA/DR solutions handle an application uprade that
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Can a HR/DR solution handle an application upgrade that includes changes
to PF and LF?
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