Wayne -- did you ever find out where the tape rings came from, and who'd munged the Write Inhibit switches?
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll <[email protected]> wrote: > My two favorite memories are: > 1 - I got called at 0230 because first the system crashed for no apparent > reason, then when they went to IPL, it failed to. So I drive into work, go > to the machine room, and as I am trying to figure out what is going on, I > notice some tape rings on the floor. So I do some investigation and find > some more, over by the disk (3350) drive area. So I look a little closer > and discover that 3 of the drives had the Write Inhibit switch in the wrong > position. One of them was a local page dataset, cause of the initial crash > and another was the CSA page pack (which, because we IPL'd with CLPA, was > the cause of the IPL failure). > 2 - We had a backup site that had our prior mainframe installed. One time, > while the machine was powered down, a maintenance person went to the > machine room, and all the lights were off, so he reaches into the dark room > and fumbles around looking for the switch, however, unknown to him, the > halon dump switch was about a foot below the light switch, and guess which > one his hand hit first? > ============================================== > Wayne Driscoll > OMEGAMON DB2 L3 Support/Development > wdrisco(at)us(dot)ibm(dot)com > All opinions are mine, and do not represent > IBM Corporation. > ============================================== > > IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on > 03/07/2014 02:50:00 PM: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
