The following is a reposting because of the possible implications for other shops, The tax e-file application is probably on a mainframe. It has been down for over a week starting last Monday and they are hoping to have all of the databases rebuilt by this Thursday. At least Canada Revenue Agency doesn't charge extra to e-file like the USA does. On 9 Mar 2007 08:50:11 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>>Sure; soon as the government starts paying interest on tax refunds. > >It does in Canada! > >- >Too busy driving to stop for gas! > Speaking of the Canada Revenue Agency, their e-filing system is down because of normal maintenance (patches according to a spokesperson) to their database system. It appears that referential integrity or some other function related to multiple table updates broke and they are rebuilding the data bases. Since CRA at least used to be a mainframe shop, I have the curiosity as to whether they had a DB2 or IMS failure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
