As many of you may know the State of Virginia has been dealing with a major computer system outage impacting 24 departments. The outage has extended over 7 business days with no estimated time for repair. Most of the press that I have seen discusses driver license renewals being down to the extent that police are not sighting people who are stopped and found to have recently expired licenses.
Some of the stories suggest the problem is in a DASD server and memory cards need to be replaced and possibly data recovered. Most US state's DOT are large IMS and or DB2 shops. Any one have more details? There must be a database lesson to be learned here. Or a Mainframe vs smaller server lesson. Here is a link to a recent article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2010/08/31/AR2010083105968.html Av Friedman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
