On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:02:16 -0500, Pommier, Rex R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...They switched from the plates going with the vehicle >to the plates staying with the seller. ... Way off topic, but I've had some cars with the bolts so rusted I'd never get the plates off. I guess I'd have to keep the car forever if I were from South Dakota. >... decided to use this law change as the reason to migrate the >application off the mainframe. So, they had no fall-back ability in >case of problems - >... To be fair, this problem had less to do with "off the mainframe" than "onto a new application" and "no fallback". If the same project managers were involved, the migration would probably have gone no better if it had been to another application on the mainframe. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

