Wayne, Hmm I seem to remember a past-tapes-processed file that prevented CEMTEX and other exchange files, value and non-value being processed twice in the File Exchange part of NAB's batch. The "tape" was just a holdover from an old naming convention, but it used to prevent files from being processed twice in exactly the way you describe. I wonder what happened to that part of the process?
Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > Wayne Bickerdike > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 5:01 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] I would love to know what went wrong at NAB > > Some information from a close source... > > It was a plain old S0C7 during their batch process. > > All Aussie banks use Cemtex ABA format which has been around for years > as a transfer format between organisations. You would think that there > is a validate step before running the transactions against their > databases. > > > A couple of things: > > Most of the support is now with the sub-continent... > The previous grey-haired support staff were either laid off or moved > to "greener pastures" > Not many local staff are competent to manually reprocess or react to > this situation. > > As a previous poster noted, probably the new transaction batch goes to > a GDG, the failed process was missed and batch read yesterday's GDG > and hence all the double transactions. > > My same source related the tale of a person in same bank who received > an EBCDIC file, opened it in Windows and saved it back as ASCII. The > file was duly transferred for processing on the mainframe. Most of the > packed data was garbaged ...... > > Oh my, dumb and dumber.... > > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Shane <ibm-m...@tpg.com.au> wrote: > > As if. > > Can't you just imagine a major Aussie Bank doing that. You were at Bank > > of NSW when they had the IMS fiasco Steve - how much info on that got > > out ? (via Bank press releases I mean :-) > > > > Shane ... > > > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:52:08 +1100 > > Stephen Mednick wrote: > > > >> One wonders if a detailed explanation of what transpired will be > >> forthcoming as was the case back in July when the DBS Bank in > >> Singapore had a major outage. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > > > > > -- > Wayne V. Bickerdike > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
