[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

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