> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 7:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led > to banking meltdown > > On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 09:33:05 -0500, Ed Gould > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Shmuel: > > > >Well if it was outsourced I wouldn't be surprised to much. > >I suspect that these people sell themselves as experts in everything > >CA-7 or MVS you name it. I have interviewed two foreign speaking > >individuals and it turns out they read the manual and do not have a > >clue beyond that. > > > > Talk about a blanket generalization! Ed, when was the last > time you > did any real work in MVS or worked with or in a company that > off shored any of their work? > > And I don't know the specifics of this incident and haven't > been following > it closely, but based on the CA-7 PTFs I saw released right afterwards > I would say the problem was related to the attempted upgrade (highly > doubtful that it was operators that attempted it) and backout coupled > with a CA-7 software issue that RBS couldn't have foreseen. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS
I do know that we had a CA7 outage recently at IPL time, an S0C6. I am lucky, my manager is a CA7 expert and even knows some of the CA people personally. We did not have any corruption, just an ABEND. We just applied a HIPER to fix it. We were "bleeding edge" on CA7 maintenance. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
