Edward Gould wrote: >> Blue Screen Of Death, mainframe-style
For those involved, their machine is a 'painframe'... ouch... >> "One day, one of the very best IBM techs was called in to work on one of the >> printers. He needed a 'P 00E' command issued so he could work on that >> printer. But instead he requested a 'DVCDN 00E' command -- which removes all >> the system assignments to that device." Ah, yes. Similar to an incorrect VARY command at IPL time. Or a typo in the IO config setup... Been there, got many T-shirts for those 'fun' times... But this 'P 00E' command is a 'winner' in a way... >> "So the system was finally restored -- after being down for four days," says >> fish. What about the poor patients? Were any sensitive life saving equipment disrupted by that outage? Or do they have backup systems in place? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
