Well, our old computer room had a exit button to unlock the magnetic lock. Located right next to the Halon discharge button. And both were painted red, for some weird reason. Neither was "secured". So, to exit one night, a maintenance worker pushed the Halon discharge instead of the exit button.
At another shop, the EPO button was on the wall near the door. There were two 370/145s in the room, on opposite walls. The operators were playing "bat the can" between them. One did a perfect pitch and hit the EPO switch. Instant darkness because the computer room was in the basement. Case of worse manangement decision. It was snowing, a rarity in Ft. Worth TX. Building maintenance, in their wisdom, asked themselves why the hell a water chiller was running in a snow storm. So they shut it and all AC off. Started getting very warm in the computer room (two 370/145s & 3330 disk drives). Operator called ops manager. Direction from the ops manager: "Continue running the system until it stops, because we don't want the Police dispatch function to be impacted." Luckily, only one disk controller actually suffered any damage. The rest just thermal checked and shut down uncontrolled. Again, complete darkness, except for the newly installed emergency lighting. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of zMan > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:33 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets > > So over the years I've heard a few good stories about accidental (or > deliberate) Halon dumps and BRS pressings. Like operators > playing Frisbee > in the machine room and discovering that the Halon button > really, really > needs a cover on it... > > Who else has stories to share? > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
