http://www.vita.virginia.gov/about/default.aspx?id=12596

Nice timeline and recovery status

Appears to have been a major failure of an EMC DMX-3 frame 

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Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:06 PM
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Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Virginia DOT outage

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

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