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routines of every group member on the surviving OS/390s that had a member on the failed
OS/390 system. For example, if the OS/390 that IRLM1 was running on failed, all the other
IRLMs would be informed.
2.5 Sysplex services for recovery
When running in a Parallel Sysplex, there are two types of sysplex services that address
availability and recovery, and in particular, address problems when a system (for example,
OS/390 or the CPC) fails, when an application (for example, IMS) fails, and even when a
Coupling Facility or the link to a Coupling Facility fails.
2.5.1 Sysplex failure management
Sysplex failure management (SFM) allows you to define an SFM policy in the SFM couple
data set (CDS) in ...