> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Stitt > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers > > I remember an article in Computer World around the early 1990's about > American Airlines getting wrecked by the volume > initialization "joke". It > was not a "joke", but lack of finger checking that cause > several disks of > DB2 data, etc to be initialized instead of a bunch of new > disk recently > installed. Took them several days to get everything back together.
And thus was born the VERIFY(oldvolser) parameter? We had an "open system" DASD person who claimed to have z/OS knowledge and wanted more responsibility. This sounded like a good thing. But when asked about using this parameter on an INIT, he basically said he wouldn't be bothered with it. He's not here any more. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
