According to IBM marketing publications, parallel sysplex is designed to provide "6 nines" (99.9999) percent availability. This represents about 31 seconds of down time/year.
This IBMLINK outage amounts to the expected down time in about 1400 years (12*3600)/30. IBM should be embarrassed. This is progress? Give me back the old green screen apps. <snip> IBMLink Outage Communication. 2 October 2013 In order to adopt IBMLink to Corporate Web standards and improve user experience through a new rich look and fell, the application may not be accessible during the following period: The installation will be deployed starting on Friday, October 4th at 08:00 PM Eastern Time through Saturday, October 5th at 08:00 AM Eastern Time. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. Thank you for your patience and understanding. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
