> >>It seems that I thought major banks had Sysplexes behind them, I guess > >not! :( > >Banks not only have SYSPLEXes most have GDPS also and are bound by law > >to very stringent down time restrictions. I doubt that your inability to > >access is due to the zOS backend systems. More likely a web interface is > >down.
[<CLC>] DO not! Do so too! Nyah! What a storm in a teacup. We've gone from an anecdotal story of some credit card function being unavailable to the end of civilization as we know it. For the record, a typical online banking system has lots of components in between the customer and the executable transaction. Many of those are outside of the z/OS environment altogether. And while many of the high end financial customers (banks etc) exploit parallel sysplex, quite a few don't. Some even do bank processing on <gasp!> non-mainframe systems </gasp!> Without knowing the exact nature of the "failure" there is no way to speculate about the cause. Even if the bank wasn't using GDPS and parallel sysplex, it is pretty unlikely the underlying cause was a z/OS outage. Not exactly grounds for opening a vein is it? CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
