[Default] On 10 Aug 2016 14:37:12 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Ed Jaffe) wrote:
>On 8/10/2016 2:00 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >> No planes fell out of Delta's sky. It was the reservation system that >> crashed; I doubt that the FAA has much to say in that arena. > >Exactly. And, the removal of airfare price fixing 38 years ago had no >bearing on it either. IJS. > >Once the dust settles, we'll know _exactly_ what went wrong at Delta and >why. If you're not following Twitter, you should be aware there are >already folks trying to make Delta's mainframe the scapegoat. > >Many major players had inadequate DRPs and BRPs on 9/11 and the IT >industry has learned a lot since that time. > >Whatever happened to Delta, let's hope it becomes a "teachable" moment >for everyone that isn't overshadowed by finger pointing or jumping on >soapboxes by those who wish to espouse some ridiculous political or >computer platform ideology... From one of the papers I skimmed, the outage may have been caused by a failure in the backup power system or the changeover control system. Does Transaction Processing Facility (Nee Airline Control Program?) support GDPS? Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
