Typos can be deadly in this business... true story (and likely not unique):
Operator is told to purge jobs 247-249. Types in $PJ247-240 (missed it by *that* much). Which as anyone familiar with JES2 knows, pretty much wiped the spool clean. And JES2 calls *its* problems "catastrophic". I don't know if that would still "work", I'm sure not going to try it. sas p.s. It wasn't me (I have caused some disasters in my career, just not this one), The actual numbers I don't remember, but the salient point is the 9 & 0 keys are adjacent. JES2 allows (or did in the 90s) allow job number ranges on commands to wrap-around from the max (9999 at the time) to 1. It did not ask for verification or check for reasonableness. On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Steve Beaver <[email protected]> wrote: > The one thing that might be interesting is which AWS site went down, and > it they the CIA down > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM > Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 8:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Check out Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites > > It was on Dutch newssites, with the text: "Amazon Web Services (AWS) > announced this on Thursday". > > Kees. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of zMan > > Sent: 03 March, 2017 15:31 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Check out Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts > > sites > > > > Cite? (Not challenging you, interested!) > > > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 3:40 AM, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The outage was caused by a typo. > > > I remember there were times we made scripts and tested them on our > > test > > > environments, to avoid silly errors in the production environment... > > > > > > Kees. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- > > [email protected]] On > > > > Behalf Of Edward Finnell > > > > Sent: 28 February, 2017 23:47 > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: Check out Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts > > sites > > > > > > > > _Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites_ > > > > (http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/28/amazons-cloud- > > > > service-goes-down-sites-scramble > > > > /98530914/) > > > > > > > > Wondered why traffic was a little off. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > -- > > -- > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM- > > MAIN > > > ******************************************************** > > > For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: > > > http://www.klm.com. 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