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I see things like customization overwritten by service (IE no equivalent of
PARMLIB concat). JCL will look easy after the various parms for the system
services. Some Unix systems are still archaic without add-on products.
Solaris 8 can only have 8 slices (sic) per hard disk but some are
"reserved", AIX has a logical volume manager, most people get Veritas
anyway.
But nobody complains about mid week re-BOOTs, in fact they PRAISE YOU for
fixing problems with a reboot. Our goal a few years ago was to close 5
trouble calls by noon. I said if I had 5 trouble calls a WEEK on my z/OS
box I'd quit. They can't understand when I say my last system outage was in
2003.... (Well except when they tried to run a generator for 24 hours on 20
hours of diesel)
SIGH.....
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I agree with the sentiment; it's quite difficult to evaluate the cost of
an outage, so most managerial teams don't even have courage enough to try.
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