> One option you may want to consider is purchasing (a nasty word) the
> AUTORESTART product and perform your dumps to disc instead of tape.
> You would only go to tape if the disc files were already in use
> holding valid dumps that were being investigated.
 
I would like to point out (what I consider to be) a glaring problem with
this product.  You cannot change the boot action without shutting down
the system.
 
We run some large systems (995/multi) and have stages of problem resolution.
Most of the time, we want the system rebooted quickly (warm) to get the
users on-line.  Only when a problem repeats do we want to make dump sets.
But to change from an automatic warm to an automatic dump with this
product requires manually restarting system system as a configuration
step (at least with 4.0 . . . I haven't heard of a change with 5.0).
 
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