> ... police are not sighting people who are stopped and found to have recently > expired licenses.
If the police are not sighting them, how are they stopping them -- and how do they know their licences are recently expired? ;-) > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:06:05 -0500 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Virginia DOT outage > To: [email protected] > > 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
