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4 Configuring Business Copy Z.....................................................................30
Workflow for setting up Business Copy Z...................................................................................30
Workflow for managing CG IDs for Business Copy Z..............................................................30
Reserving consistency groups..........................................................................................30
Releasing reserved mainframe consistency groups..................................................................32
System options that affect performance.................................................................................33
Enabling system options......................................................................................................34
5 Managing Business Copy Z pairs...............................................................36
Workflow for managing Business Copy Z pairs..........................................................................36
BC Z pair status checks...........................................................................................................36
BC Z pair creation..................................................................................................................37
Workflow for creating Business Copy Z pairs.........................................................................37
Prerequisites for creating BC Z pairs.....................................................................................38
Creating BC Z pairs...........................................................................................................38
Suppressing update copy operations during pair creation.......................................................42
Workflow for setting up pair configurations for BC Z..............................................................42
Suspending BC Z pair creation.................................................................................................45
Changing BC Z pair options....................................................................................................47
Splitting BC Z pairs.................................................................................................................48
Pair splitting methods.........................................................................................................49
Prerequisites for splitting BC Z pairs.....................................................................................49
Workflow for quickly splitting existing pairs...........................................................................50
Splitting BC Z pairs............................................................................................................50
Workflow for consistency group pair-split..............................................................................52
Restrictions for consistency group pair-split........................................................................53
Workflow for maintaining consistent Business Copy Z secondary volume backups.................53
Workflow for registering new split times for BC Z consistency groups...................................53
BC Z pair resynchronization.....................................................................................................54
Types of pair resynchronization............................................................................................54
Forward resynchronization..............................................................................................54
Reverse resynchronization...............................................................................................55
Workflow for resynchronizing BC Z pairs..............................................................................56
Workflow for restoring BC Z pairs........................................................................................56
Resynchronizing or restoring BC Z pairs................................................................................57
Suppressing update copy operations during pair restoration.........................................................59
Workflow for setting the RAID level...........................................................................................60
BC Z pair deletion..................................................................................................................60
Prerequisites for deleting BC Z pairs.....................................................................................60
Workflow for deleting BC Z pairs.........................................................................................60
Deleting BC Z pairs............................................................................................................61
MP blades and deleting pairs..............................................................................................62
6 Monitoring and maintaining Business Copy Z..............................................63
Monitoring the Business Copy Z system.....................................................................................63
Viewing pair information for local replication........................................................................63
Monitoring BC Z pair activity and status...............................................................................64
The RWC pair status names and descriptions....................................................................65
RAID Manager pair status names....................................................................................67
Pair status and supported pair user tasks..........................................................................67
Unaffected S-VOL status and pair user tasks......................................................................68
Monitoring BC Z pair, volume details...................................................................................68
Monitoring BC Z pair synchronization rates...........................................................................70
Monitoring consistency groups.............................................................................................71
Viewing consistency group properties..............................................................................72
Viewing a list of Fast Snap pairs.....................................................................................73
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