Developing operating procedures

After you have made basic design decisions about operations and recovery, you are ready to implement these decisions. Primarily, implementation takes the form of developing procedures for operating IMS.

The importance of developing good procedures cannot be over emphasized. The installations with the most success are those with well-written, well-maintained, well-tested, and well-understood procedures.

Establishing procedures for operating IMS is not a simple task. Because each installation has unique requirements and resources, no single approach to operations is possible. These topics provide some basic guidelines for establishing procedures.