On 23 Feb 2016 20:46:21 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Ed Gould wrote: >>Seriously the issue is absence of debugging tools to find the leak >>seems like it would be simpler to have them. > >Who said they didn't? They had quite excellent problem determination tools >(plural). > >Keep in mind the mission-critical application was in production. Neither >planned nor unplanned downtime was/is tolerable. They had to keep the >business service available while troubleshooting and then fixing the >problem. They did, and the platform made possible their Apollo 13-like >triumph. Failure would have been quite expensive. > >Clark Morris wrote: >>The joy can be understanding why the bug, fixing it so that you don't >>cause the application equivalent of the PE chain, running all the >>tests and then going through change management. Setting up the >>appropriate tests alone can be time consuming. > >Quite correct, I agree. > >Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >>Price is also a problem.... > >Yes, I suppose the price of the levee that would have saved New Orleans was >"a problem." The price of Hurricane Katrina was much higher. > >Even so, I assume you'll be pleased IBM has majorly reduced the price of >memory, even while it's the only memory in the industry with RAIM >protections, to pick one among several unique characteristics. Enjoy. > >It's *always* about value for money, whether mainframes or moon rockets. >This isn't a complicated concept. Now raise your hand if you want the >lowest priced heart surgeon, operating room, and artificial valve. :-)
It depends. What makes the more expensive ones worth the money and do I need those things in my case? Clark Morris > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Timothy Sipples >IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA >E-Mail: [email protected] > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
