Sounds like the Big Red self-destruct button. Every thriller needs one. Davros had one on his chair.
Usually there is a countdown associated with this and the hero escapes just in time :) Years ago I asked an operator what the Emergency Stop button on our 370 was. His reply: "It shuts down the whole show and you get your cards if you press it." Seemed like a useless feature at the time. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Skip Robinson <[email protected]>wrote: > I hate to post 'I don't know', but I recently encountered the same option > as we were planning to replace a CEC. Our CE had never noticed it. He had > to do some research within IBM to learn that it is indeed an appropriate > action for decommissioning a box. I guess it's fairly new. If you plan to > enjoy your CEC for some time to come, this icon is best avoided. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > [email protected] > > > > From: "R.S." <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], > Date: 02/25/2014 07:43 AM > Subject: Prepare System for Discontinuance > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > > > An icon on Support Element 2.12, named Prepare System for Discontinuance. > No help for the task. > Anyone knows what is it for? > Where is it documented? > Any clue? > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > > > > -- > Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku > przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może być > jedynie jej adresat z wyłączeniem dostępu osób trzecich. Jeżeli nie jesteś > adresatem niniejszej wiadomości lub pracownikiem upoważnionym do jej > przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, że jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, > rozprowadzanie lub inne działanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie > zabronione i może być karalne. Jeżeli otrzymałeś tę wiadomoś > ć omyłkowo, > prosimy niezwłocznie zawiadomić nadawcę wysyłając odpowiedź oraz trwale > usunąć tę wiadomość włączając w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub > zapisane na dysku. > > This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is > intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be > > received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. > If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee > authorized to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any > dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is > legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by > mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility > in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any > copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. > > mBank S.A. z siedzibą w Warszawie, ul. Senatorska 18, 00-950 Warszawa, > www.mBank.pl, e-mail: [email protected] > Sąd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydział Gospodarczy Krajowego > Rejestru Sądowego, nr rejestru przedsiębiorców KRS 0000025237, NIP: > 526-021-50-88. Według stanu na dzień 01.01.2014 r. kapitał zakładowy > mBanku S.A. (w całości wpłacony) wynosi 168.696.052 złote. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
