On Dec 18, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote:
Ed Gould wrote:
We used both *EXTENSIVELY*. We were pretty locked down with ACF2.
I reviewed the rules almost every other month, except the system
stuff and I reviewed that every other week personally. I was
almost paranoid with all the NJE activity and we logged quite a
bit and I reviewed the loggings daily.
Almost paranoid? Considering that "One Mistake and You're Fired"
policy, excessive caution was probably justified!
Ed,
Well that was true BUT it was more of a case of I did not want any
surprises at 0:xx morning calls. I worked extremely hard and
treasured my sleep. I only got called out at 04xx for a stupid JES2
(yes this does hurt in the NJE conversation we are having). It seems
that with all the maintenance we put on JES2 they made a change to /
*XMIT JECL (yes there was a hold doc not a hold action I am still
hurting for missing that one) and production was impacted. I fixed
the problem in under 5 minutes but found about 10 other jobs that
used the same problematic JECL, before it became an issue and
requested production support "fix" the job(s). We had a 6AM deadline
for getting the production out to all the brokerage houses so the
market could open that day. I was able to get the job rerun and
transmitted by 5:55AM. The VP was outside the door pacing frantically
and when the job was purged from our system I walked out and turned
out the light and said its fixed he was very relieved. If I had
played lazy and let the support people do their job I am sure the
market would not have opened and I would have been blamed. From then
on when ever JES2 maintenance went on I double checked the PTF cover
letters line by line to see if they went anywhere near NJE I went
over line by line any changes they made. Like I said I do not like
surprises. That was one JES2 fix that I really raised cane about with
friend in Gburg. He actually talked to the JES2 people and let them
know I was an unhappy customer. I think I talked with the JES2 person
at GUIDE as well. I think he was later fired (or transferred I never
did hear exactly) for water skiing in the buff at an IBM function.
Ed
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