I was thinking something similar when I heard that. It is unusual for 1 card to fail, even more so two. I am guessing that this device had some ancient ESCON channels in it, and no service contract. The first card probably failed months ago, and no one bothered to change it. When that happens, you are just asking for downtime.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 3:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: "Mainframe outage affecting W.Va. state agencies could take 48, 72 hours to resolve" When one part goes down, all you get is a message. You don't get an outage until enough parts go down and the devices stops working (enough raid volumes to not rebuild blocks, all communications channels). On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 1:05 PM John S. Giltner, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Seems 2 parts failed and it happened last week. > > https://www.wvpublic.org/government/2022-07-21/mainframe-failure-shuts > -down-dmv-dhhr-computer-systems > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
