On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:29:02 -0500, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I wish the person this had happened to would pipe up, but to set the >record more precisely because of a bad date RACF (This is hear say) >did something to the (RACF) database that essentially rendered the >system not operatrional. Just by IPLing (again) with the correct date >was too late as the RACF database unusable. I do not know if they had >backups or any specifics. I heard they were down for a day or so. >Luckily this was a weekend. > >Ed Ed, In 1989 I was working in a shop where the operator accidentally entered the ipl date as yy/mm/98 instead of yy/mm/89. This was not noticed until all the jobs that read tapes started failing because the tape datasets had expired. I ended up writing a little program to make the operator verify that the date was correct before the ipl could procede. Dave Long ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
