I know what you mean. Ours two closest are 1000 and 3000 miles away. If we are going into one of the centers, we must be accompanied by a manager at the facility and leave our firstborn at the door as a hostage (well, maybe not the firstborn, but company id and driver's license). And that is just to get into the building. The computer rooms are a different story. It kind of reminds me of a trip to the Navy's Atlantic Intelligence Center in 1968 - each of us in the group was accompanied by two armed Marine guards. There were more guards in the meeting room than there were participants.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: What do your operators do? > > Some of us are just way way too far from our systems to be "around". > One data center is 2000 miles, the other like 800. > Added to that, they don't let us in :) and who wants to go to > MN in January or AZ in August anyway! > > > Marcy > "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged > information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to > receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, > disclose, or take any action based on this message or any > information herein. If you have received this message in > error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail > and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Leland > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBMVM] What do your operators do? > > Thanks everyone for paint the pictures. > > Let's see...We don't have tape attached to our z/VMs. We rarely do > server reboots and very rarely IPL our z/VMs (both of which will be > changing though) and z/VM has almost never complained about anything. > > When we do IPL/reboot it's usually due to change, so we're around > anyway. The one time that z/VM did cause us concern was > during IPL, so > again, we were around. > > We have had to take a couple of chpids offline here and there > for the HW > guys, but we've either been notified of a problem or we were > aware of a > change. > Either case, we've made ourselves available. > > So, we must be much smaller than everyone else, are too power > hungry to > relinquish control, or we've just been very lucky. :-) > > In any case, I still don't think they need access. And I'd wager they > would agree. :-) > > Thanks again, > > Leland >
