Having a tested DR failover plan in place and actually pulling the trigger on it are separate issues. We once endured a day-long outage after a failed CEC rather than fail over to a mirrored data center. There were extenuating circumstances. Three senior sysprogs were in POK for z/OS ESP training. IBM was 'on it' from the get-go, but the hanging question was how long it would take to get the CEC running again.
Our DR plan was always predicated on the notion of systemic catastrophe. This was not that. There was no damage other than the z/10 book. There's a huge cost to data center failover. At the end of that day, we were up and running, crisis over. If we had failed over, we would have set about to fail back, a prodigious weeks-long effort that could not have been tested in advance. I'm no apologist for Wells--such is karma--but I understand any reticence they may have experienced. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, February 08, 2019 10:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Wells Fargo? Well f*&%#d at the moment: Data center up in smoke, bank website, app down . The Register They put all of their eggs in one basket? No hot backup for data center? How 20th Century. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Mark Regan <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2019 5:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Wells Fargo? Well f*&%#d at the moment: Data center up in smoke, bank website, app down . The Register Does Wells Fargo use mainframes? https://secure-web.cisco.com/1XbdCKsnGLKgEwr85APN1jW3fG2wRa_DYqn-xDXZ9jO3awyW8jIquQnJyOyfcrmqMVniUBdat5oPC-eU7rzhVSHXMni4cgoSm21sJuWtR2jKxY5IIlBv37owgp1W83lt6KLn50ISiJGUGPbjjT2LPs_SyIIO-Th44keJWo7_qcXoCwAeaTbSzIvW903QlCMNUAmJo5FA9bCXluc_sVVbGXSeOuwpgRKunm8NlyC8zO9jltbdIKG0XPsNGkYuwixHeBWPlxN1D3qx7lhiWZbk_QD12M7CAfRZjNCUqpA9FM7vw1DSu5G1SH-c989siK6WH-_zhuKM5DLhW-8KWoHEgOXdD3WMrpO_NTiVus7SPMrf5XVZrjU8GCv0HVNgnVh9CL2EUwK17hGyu0RKEW39tgTqlb0r9iXxweNrK-44Dph_UYQic1zTj2mtmrRH8z4Fb/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2019%2F02%2F07%2Fwells_fargo_outage%2F Regards, Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1 USNR-Retired, 1969-1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
