Well, today thru Friday, and I'm done at P&H. Monday when I came in, I discovered the network was down. Our network guy was in at the datacenter and unplugged it. Later in the day, the Hitachi guy erased all of the dasd, and the IBM guy unplugged the CPU and put it in the corner awaiting shipping. I've been busy creating a spreadsheet for our tape storage people telling them what tapes to dispose of and which ones to keep. We already sent all of our tapes from the datacenter off to be destroyed, minus the 600 or so we wanted to keep.
I'll have to remember to change my signature line to delete the P&H Mining, and change the phone number. Scary thought. I suggested taking FDR backups, either of everything needed to do disaster recovery, or all of the operating system packs, or the last set of DR tapes we sent off site. Because we would need an MVS system to restore them, management decided to not keep any FDR backups. We are only saving data tapes, which we can have converted by several companies. I thing we will buy a 3490 tape drive and some software which will allow us to convert everything to ASCII format. I have to say, P&H is treating us (the 6 left that are losing their jobs) very fairly. I can survive the rest of this year on my benefit package and my savings. If I'm still not employed in September, I might even go to Korea with my wife and visit our son, who just moved there a month ago. He has a break from school then. Hopefully, I'll find something in the Milwaukee area before that. Oh well, back to my spreadsheet for tapes. I'll keep reading the list. Hopefully, my postings won't ever get as far out of date as someone's I won't mention by name. Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer P&H Mining Equipment 414-671-7849 Milwaukee, Wisconsin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
