We actually brought this up to them at SHARE during a restricted session. The concerns were that they were taking an outage during our main upgrade window, when we need them the most. Since they have a failover site, why couldn't they do a rolling upgrade? The response was a blank stare.
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Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: [email protected] All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Clark Morris > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Planned IBMLink Outage July 10-11 > > On 8 Jul 2009 10:01:22 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >Planned IBMLink Outage July 10-11 > > > >This is to inform you that IBMLink will have a planned outage starting > >on Friday, July 10 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time through Saturday, July 11 > at > >8:00 AM Eastern Time (Saturday, July 10 from 01:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC). > >This planned outage will occur because of the installation of our July > >fixpack, which will include improvements to the IBMLink platform and > its > >applications. During this time, you will not be able to access > IBMLink. > > > >We would like to remind you that there is a maintenance window > scheduled > >every Saturday night from 11:00 PM Eastern Time through Sunday at 9:00 > >AM Eastern Time (Sundays 03:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC). This window may be > >used for normal maintenance of the infrastructure on which IBMLink > >resides. During this time, you may not be able to access IBMLink. > > Haven't they heard about 24/7/365.25. If I wasn't semi-retired, I > would be submitting a SHARE requirement and if rejected, I would > seriously consider embarrassing publicity, say at an annual meeting of > IBM. > > > >Thank you for your patience and understanding. > > > > > I would have no patience and less understanding. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > List-Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> > List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main > Precedence: list > Received: from mailgw3b.lmco.com (mg_filter) > by mailgw3b.lmco.com with mailout; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:01:22 %z > Received: from bama (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by bama.ua.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n68K15mo015840; > Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:01:17 -0500 (CDT) > Received: by BAMA.UA.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.0) with spool id > 100567 > for [email protected]; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:00:02 -0500 > Received: from mailapp-1.ua.edu (mailapp-1.ua.edu [130.160.4.236]) by > bama.ua.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n68Jxbvh007577 > for > <[email protected]>; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:00:02 -0500 (CDT) > Received: from simmts8.bellnexxia.net (HELO simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net) > ([206.47.199.166]) by mailapp-1.ua.edu with ESMTP; 08 Jul > 2009 > 15:00:02 -0500 > Received: from simip10-ac.srvr.bell.ca ([206.47.199.89]) by > simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 > 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id > <20090708200001.wpwg1670.simmts8-srv.bellnexxia....@simip10- > ac.srvr.bell.ca> for <[email protected]>; Wed, > 8 Jul 2009 16:00:01 -0400 > Received: from hlfxns0187w-142167197158.pppoe-dynamic.ns.aliant.net > (HELO > home-jxaf3rmocz.no-domain-set.aliant) ([142.167.197.158]) by > simip10-ac.srvr.bell.ca with SMTP; 08 Jul 2009 15:53:48 -0400 > References: > <b192ab50f9a86f438aa3a8528934355e0efcf...@crplivexc52.citnet.cit.com> > Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Planned IBMLink Outage July 10-11 > To: [email protected] > X-Antivirus: checked in 0.007sec at bama.ua.edu ([130.160.4.114]) by > smf-clamd > v1.2.1 - http://smfs.sf.net/ > X-Group: ACCEPTLIST > X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,370,1243832400"; > d="scan'208";a="58608852" > X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true > X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true > X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: > > ApsCAGOXVErOL8emkWdsb2JhbACBUZc/AQEBAQkLCgcTA7gxhAgFiRw > X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjkFAJOUVEqOp8We/2dsb2JhbACBUdAchAgFiRw > X-MID: 58608852 > X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by bama.ua.edu id > n68K02vM009296 > X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 > X-MessageGate-spam: 120 > X-Policy: $ACCEPTED > X-RemoteIP: 206.47.199.166 > X-SBRS: 4.5 > > On 8 Jul 2009 10:01:22 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >Planned IBMLink Outage July 10-11 > > > >This is to inform you that IBMLink will have a planned outage starting > >on Friday, July 10 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time through Saturday, July 11 > at > >8:00 AM Eastern Time (Saturday, July 10 from 01:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC). > >This planned outage will occur because of the installation of our July > >fixpack, which will include improvements to the IBMLink platform and > its > >applications. During this time, you will not be able to access > IBMLink. > > > >We would like to remind you that there is a maintenance window > scheduled > >every Saturday night from 11:00 PM Eastern Time through Sunday at 9:00 > >AM Eastern Time (Sundays 03:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC). This window may be > >used for normal maintenance of the infrastructure on which IBMLink > >resides. During this time, you may not be able to access IBMLink. > > Haven't they heard about 24/7/365.25. If I wasn't semi-retired, I > would be submitting a SHARE requirement and if reje ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
