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On 9/3/2010 7:41 PM, Clark Morris wrote:
On 3 Sep 2010 15:52:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On 9/3/2010 5:36 PM, Gerhard Adam wrote:
The way I read the articles, there was
On 3 Sep 2010 17:41:48 -0700, cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca (Clark Morris)
wrote:
Mirroring will happily duplicate bad data written by a misbehaving
program (or by misbehaving hardware for that matter).
And a backup program will blithely copy bad data to the backup
mechanism.
Sure, but we can go
On 9/3/2010 7:41 PM, Clark Morris wrote:
On 3 Sep 2010 15:52:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On 9/3/2010 5:36 PM, Gerhard Adam wrote:
The way I read the articles, there was mirroring and the failure of
primary was made disastrous by the failure of the mirroring device. If
this
Richard,
How true. I thought this was part of the thinking behind before and
after batch back-ups, providing a checkpoint where an application could be
restored prior to some application related error or corruption.
There are a few sites that use in-system copy products (Shadowimage,
FlashCopy,
--snip---
The way I read the articles, there was mirroring and the failure of
primary was made disastrous by the failure of the mirroring device. If
this is the case, what are the probabilities of the same thing on IBM
devices
on Friday, not Monday?
Ron
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There also are some fiascos
In p06240801c8a76e260...@[192.168.1.11], on 09/03/2010
at 11:35 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said:
Since = means set-to-the-value-of
In FORTRAN, but not in all languages.
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I disagree, John. Spelling is VERY important in preserving the meaning
of written communications.
SIGHTING, as in seeing, is vastly different than CITING
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Indeed ... Personal favourite :
Stationery - Office equipment
Stationary - Not in motion
Other rather common malappropriations:
Personal vs. personnel; principle vs. principal; right vs.
rite (and
..and the mouse-twitching generation's loose vs. lose.
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=
= Indeed ... Personal favourite :
=
= Stationery - Office equipment
= Stationary - Not in motion
=
= Other rather common malappropriations:
=
=
I had a dBase application that I sent out, with full directions and
routine to do backups. When a user's copy got corrupted, she
realized that she usually neglected this option and before calling for
help, backed up the corrupted copy over her one good backup.
Sighting vs. citing, homophones, etc.:
Then there are all the Janus words, which are spelled the same, pronounced the
same, but have opposite meanings Fortunately, there are not many. Here are a
few in English:
1. cleave - to stick together or to be torn apart
2. oversight - watching over
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Sighting vs. citing, homophones, etc.:
Then there are all
6. let -- allow, stop (e.g., in tennis)
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com wrote:
Sighting vs. citing, homophones, etc.:
Then there are all the Janus words, which are spelled the same, pronounced
the same, but have opposite meanings Fortunately, there are not
redundancy.
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:00:46 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg
hal9...@panix.com wrote:
At 20:25 -0400 on 09/01/2010, J R wrote about Re: Virginia DOT outage:
... police are not sighting people who are stopped and found to
have recently expired licenses.
If the police are not sighting them
On 2 Sep 2010 22:29:28 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
At 12:16 -0700 on 09/02/2010, Gerhard Adam wrote about Re: Virginia DOT outage:
Having been in on a couple of recovery actions due to major files
getting fouled up, I can believe that things could take up to a week.
How do
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:38:59 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
One of the many reasons that I prefer computer languages. They are not
ambiguous. Well, they shouldn't be. I guess you could design one where the
meaning of a statement is not defined unambiguously. But it is definately
implemented
On 3 Sep 2010 06:39:47 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
One of the many reasons that I prefer computer languages. They are not
ambiguous.
Well, they shouldn't be. I guess you could design one where the meaning of a
statement
is not defined unambiguously. But it is
On 3 Sep 2010 07:22:45 -0700, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:
And in common English:
Generic is something that is general, common, or inclusive rather than
specific, unique, or selective. (wikipedia)
Esoteric knowledge, in the dictionary (non-scholarly) sense, is thus that
which
On 9/3/2010 9:32 AM, Bill Fairchild wrote:
Sighting vs. citing, homophones, etc.:
Then there are all the Janus words, which are spelled the
same, pronounced the same, but have opposite meanings
Fortunately, there are not many. Here are a few in English:
And potentially the most dangerous:
A file or database gets corrupted Tuesday evening and Wednesday
morning review catches it. Meanwhile further updates have been done.
How simple is the recovery and damage limitation process? This is
just on scenario of failures that can take much time to fix.
The problem with all these what if
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net wrote:
And potentially the most dangerous: inflammable.
Mmm, no... inflammable is NEVER the opposite of flammable. That
would just be wrong.
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:38:59 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
One of the many reasons that I prefer computer languages.
They are not ambiguous.
Not ambiguous, I suppose, but sometimes counter-intuitive.
What does this mean in C:
If A=B then.
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On 3 Sep 2010 08:25:13 -0700, gerh...@valley.net (Gerhard Postpischil)
wrote:
Then there are all the Janus words, which are spelled the
same, pronounced the same, but have opposite meanings
Fortunately, there are not many. Here are a few in English:
And potentially the most dangerous:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:32:12 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
Not ambiguous, I suppose, but sometimes counter-intuitive.
What does this mean in C:
If A=B then.
I cherish languages of the ALGOL lineage for their use of =
as a comparison operator but not for assignment.
And some DEC languages used
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:38:59 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
One
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:32:12 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote
In a message dated 9/3/2010 4:58:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
peter.nutt...@euroclear.com writes:
We had the BMC utility suite the following week
Yeah we managed to justify Platinum Suite in a hurry. Paid for itself
within a year.
In a message dated 9/3/2010 8:05:24 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
howard.bra...@cusys.edu writes:
realized that she usually neglected this option and before calling for
help, backed up the corrupted copy over her one good backup.
Yeah, we had a research department have their big server
More info:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9183460/Northrop_Grumman_takes_blame_for_Va._IT_services_outage
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I would absolutely LOVE a grass roots campaign to eliminate = as a token in
any and all languages.
Comparison should be ==. Assignment should be :=.
In 1980, my final year at UOW, I wrote a paper stating exactly the same thing.
I got a good mark, and ended up with a double major (CS Stats).
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Having been in on a couple of recovery actions due to major files
getting fouled up, I can believe that things could take
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That's my feeling also. In looking at the timeline on the Virginia
Government
Summary of the article in the Computer World :
2005 : The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) outsources
the management of
its data centers to Northrop Grumman through a 10-year,
$2.4 billion contract
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snip
Conclusion :
So Northrop Grumman is saying, they are having
No argument but, as we all know, Stuff happens.
Here on The List, we all have the benefit of long experience and a
very high set of quality standards. Not every shop enjoys these attributes.
Don't forget: the Titanic was built by people with high standards and
long experience. And the Space
---snip
Having been in on a couple of recovery actions due to major files
getting fouled up, I can believe that things could take up to a week.
How do major files get fouled up with adequate backups?
Or audit files.
No argument but, as we all know, Stuff happens.
Here on The List, we all have the benefit of long experience and a
very high set of quality standards. Not every shop enjoys these attributes.
Sorry, but that's no excuse. When someone sets themselves up as being the
outsourcer and is being paid
That works fine for files managed by a DBMS. What about ordinary PS/PO
datasets that may get updated several times between backup cycles?
They need to be backed up more frequently if they're that critical. This
isn't rocket science.
-snip--
I would absolutely LOVE a grass roots campaign to eliminate = as a token
in any and all languages. Comparison should be ==. Assignment should be
:=. No ambiguity there. No intuitive meaning for newbies to make an
--snip
Yeah, we had a research department have their big server stolen
from secure closet. IBM said they could replace overnight-which they did.
Then our server folks got AIX up and trucking, we're ready for the backups.
In listserv%201009030859130071.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 09/03/2010
at 08:59 AM, Avram Friedman ibmsysp...@geek-sites.com said:
As an example ever since VSAM recoverable catalogs
The ones that were less stable than nonrecoverable catalogs?
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In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005d5e05...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom,
on 09/03/2010
at 11:56 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said:
I would absolutely LOVE a grass roots campaign to eliminate = as a
token in any and all languages. Comparison should be ==.
== is an abomination.
In listserv%201009031147343643.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 09/03/2010
at 11:47 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
And some DEC languages used left-arrow for assignment when that was
a prevalent graphic on Teletype print elements. (I believe ASCII
usurped the code point with underscore.
I
In
1458820400-1283538012-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-2998234...@bda026.bisx.prod.on.blackberry,
on 09/03/2010
at 06:20 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said:
== is a good choice for comparison.
It's ugly.
:= is ALGOL
So? If you adopt := for another language then using = for
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-snip
This after numerous EMC marketting reps assured me, of a period of
several months, that EMC had NEVER experienced a storage failure that
resulted in ANY outage.
AND they assured me that no EMC customer had ever lost a single byte of
data due to EEMC product failure.
Repeat after me:
This after numerous EMC marketting reps assured me, of a period of several
months, that EMC had NEVER experienced a storage failure that resulted in ANY
outage.
I KNOW of one in Canada in the mid-1990's.
What ever he's smoking, I'd like some.
-
I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor
On 3 Sep 2010 12:23:18 -0700, gada...@charter.net (Gerhard Adam)
wrote:
That works fine for files managed by a DBMS. What about ordinary PS/PO
datasets that may get updated several times between backup cycles?
They need to be backed up more frequently if they're that critical. This
isn't
On 3 Sep 2010 09:51:53 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
As shown, nothing because it is invalid syntax. grin
But with parenthesis around the A=B, it means exactly what it says: Assign the
value of B to A, then test to see if it is equal to zero or not. That is where
On 3 Sep 2010 12:42:52 -0700, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz
, Seymour J.) wrote:
I would absolutely LOVE a grass roots campaign to eliminate = as a
token in any and all languages. Comparison should be ==.
== is an abomination.
Assignment should be :=.
There I agree, although I would
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On 3 Sep 2010 09:51:53 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown
-snip--
No argument but, as we all know, Stuff happens.
Here on The List, we all have the benefit of long experience and a
very high set of quality standards. Not every shop enjoys these attributes.
Sorry, but that's
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
This after numerous EMC marketting reps assured me, of a period of several
months, that EMC had NEVER experienced a storage failure that resulted in ANY
outage.
I KNOW of one in Canada in the mid-1990's.
What ever he's
Rick Fochtman wisely noted:
| Stupidity is always a reason and often an excuse.
| Unfortunately, there's no vaccine for it.
It would not matter if there were a vaccine. I am convinced that
by the time a child is old enough to be vaccinated the disease has
already taken firm hold, and the
On 3 Sep 2010 11:27:13 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Any DASD device is going to eventually fail. If the data is not backed up
efficiently (mirrored, physical or otherwise) and there aren't solid and,
more importantly, TESTED procedures in place for when that failure does
The way I read the articles, there was mirroring and the failure of
primary was made disastrous by the failure of the mirroring device. If
this is the case, what are the probabilities of the same thing on IBM
devices regardless of the operating system?
That's probably true. After all, who would
On 9/3/2010 5:36 PM, Gerhard Adam wrote:
The way I read the articles, there was mirroring and the failure of
primary was made disastrous by the failure of the mirroring device. If
this is the case, what are the probabilities of the same thing on IBM
devices regardless of the operating system?
On 3 Sep 2010 15:52:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On 9/3/2010 5:36 PM, Gerhard Adam wrote:
The way I read the articles, there was mirroring and the failure of
primary was made disastrous by the failure of the mirroring device. If
this is the case, what are the probabilities of
At 12:05 +0200 on 09/03/2010, Peter Nuttall wrote about Re: Virginia
DOT outage:
Indeed ... Personal favourite :
Stationery - Office equipment
Stationary - Not in motion
Or
President - chief official (as of a company or nation)
Precedent - something said or done earlier that serves
At 11:32 -0500 on 09/03/2010, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Virginia DOT outage:
One of the many reasons that I prefer computer languages.
They are not ambiguous.
Not ambiguous, I suppose, but sometimes counter-intuitive.
What does this mean in C:
If A=B then.
Set A to B's value
At 08:59 -0500 on 09/03/2010, Avram Friedman wrote about Re: Virginia
DOT outage:
Why does this outage prevent the offcers from writting tickets for expired
licenses when the driver is stopped for other reasons. After all
the experation date is on the drivers license?
The answer
At 01:25 -0400 on 09/03/2010, Gabe Goldberg wrote about Re: Virginia
DOT outage:
The problem wasn't checking license validity, it was renewing
licenses. They've extended by 20 days validity of licenses which
expired Aug 25-Sept 2 or so, are keeping DMV offices open extra
hours and days
At 14:20 -0600 on 09/03/2010, Howard Brazee wrote about Re: Virginia
DOT outage:
Most languages allow for A = A + 1.
Since = means set-to-the-value-of this is no different than:
LA 5,1(0,5)
IOW: Compute the value of A+1 and store
of money to convert the mainframe to something else.
The article above is about how great the new solution is.
Denis.
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Subject: Re: Virginia DOT outage
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of J R
... police are not sighting people who are stopped and found to have
recently expired licenses.
If the police are not sighting them, how are they stopping them -- and
how do they know their licences
are
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote:
One might argue that the context of the original statement required
citing rather than sighting, but nowadays how can one be sure?
Perhaps spelling really is unimportant, so long as the correct sound is
represented. And both
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Subject: Virginia DOT outage
Regardless of the cause, doesn't this say more about the disaster
recovery
scenario than anything else?
Adam
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Subject: Virginia DOT outage
Regardless of the cause, doesn't this say more about the disaster
recovery
scenario than anything
Having been in on a couple of recovery actions due to major files
getting fouled up, I can believe that things could take up to a week.
How do major files get fouled up with adequate backups?
There also are some fiascos that real-time
backup won't guard against.
Not true. Especially when
Especially when every company that does DR testing always come back
proclaiming how successful the test was.
Tell me about it!
I was involved, as a customer, when our service provider declared a test a
success when it didn't even meet more than 5 (out of almost 100) success
criteria.
Some
something to fail and once fixed it makes DR better.
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Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 2:44 PM
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Subject: Re: Virginia DOT outage
Especially when every company
Why don't you call it an exercise instead of a test, then you can always say
that in an exercise you would expect something to fail and that's
the reason for the exercise.
If I were the keeper of the corporate buzzwords, I would.
I tried that route, at a major Canadian bank, and they told me it
On 2 Sep 2010 12:17:48 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Having been in on a couple of recovery actions due to major files
getting fouled up, I can believe that things could take up to a week.
How do major files get fouled up with adequate backups?
There also are some fiascos that
If something starts going wrong and doesn't get detected for a period
of time, the backups will be contaminated from time of first failure.
Getting things straightened out can be interesting.
What can start going wrong that doesn't get detected? Someone's not paying
attention.
These issues
These issues have been around for well over 40 years, and if they haven't been
addressed then shame on whoever's responsible.
It simply isn't acceptable to say that something got messed up.
This isn't 1975.
Unfortunately, everything old is new again.
People who don't learn from history ...
I
In a message dated 9/2/2010 5:54:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
eamacn...@yahoo.ca writes:
And, even though it's a best practice, if you don't pay for it, you don't
get it.
An application problem, followed by a procedural problem still happens.
My favorite was the hot-shot DBA that
It turned out our contract with our service provider did not allow for the
testing back-ups.
And, even though it's a best practice, if you don't pay for it, you don't
get it.
An application problem, followed by a procedural problem still happens.
I completely understand, but those aren't
--snip
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of J R
... police are not sighting people who are stopped and found to have
recently expired licenses.
If the police are not
---snip---
If something starts going wrong and doesn't get detected for a period
of time, the backups will be contaminated from time of first failure.
Getting things straightened out can be interesting.
What can start
If the process seems to be working smoothly, who checks results? And how?
We had an incident in Illinois where a license plate number was
re-assigned but the database wasn't updated because the plate already
appeared in the database. An innocent man was killed by State Police
because the
I disagree, John. Spelling is VERY important in preserving the meaning of
written communications.
I agree 100%!
When I was an elementary school student, in the 1960's, and I did a science
project, if I made a spelling, or grammatical, error, my science teacher would
take up to 5% off of the
It happened in the late 1970's.
Rick
-
Gerhard Adam wrote:
If the process seems to be working smoothly, who checks results? And how?
We had an incident in Illinois where a license plate number was
re-assigned but
On 2 Sep 2010 16:16:22 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
It turned out our contract with our service provider did not allow for the
testing back-ups.
And, even though it's a best practice, if you don't pay for it, you don't
get it.
An application problem, followed by a procedural
That was bad programming practice even then. Especially in that timeframe
when there's no question that the access method would've kicked back an
error condition for attempting to replace a duplicate record. My point
here, is that this is not a technology issue, but a people not doing their
job
In article 4c80381e.6050...@ync.net you wrote:
If the process seems to be working smoothly, who checks results? And how?
We had an incident in Illinois where a license plate number was
re-assigned but the database wasn't updated because the plate already
appeared in the database. An
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Don Poitras sas...@sas.com wrote:
deleted
They weren't injured, but you have to believe they were pretty scared
when the plane they were flying last Saturday was met by armed men
screaming at them. The 'criminals'? John and Martha King. Known throughout
the US
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:34:43 -0400, Don Poitras wrote:
They weren't injured, but you have to believe they were pretty scared
when the plane they were flying last Saturday was met by armed men
screaming at them. The 'criminals'? John and Martha King. Known throughout
the US for their many pilot
The problem wasn't checking license validity, it was renewing
licenses. They've extended by 20 days validity of licenses which expired
Aug 25-Sept 2 or so, are keeping DMV offices open extra hours and days,
and have notified police regarding the extension. And some measure I
didn't quite
At 07:23 -0500 on 09/02/2010, Mike Schwab wrote about Re: Virginia DOT outage:
SPELLING-CHECKER POEM
http://www.bios.niu.edu/zar/poem.html
There is also Science Fiction Author Piers Anthony who in one of the
first books in his Xanth Series had a character write an essay which
was then spell
At 12:16 -0700 on 09/02/2010, Gerhard Adam wrote about Re: Virginia DOT outage:
Having been in on a couple of recovery actions due to major files
getting fouled up, I can believe that things could take up to a week.
How do major files get fouled up with adequate backups?
Or audit files
As many of you may know the State of Virginia has been dealing with a major
computer system outage impacting 24 departments.
The outage has extended over 7 business days with no estimated time for
repair.
Most of the press that I have seen discusses driver license renewals being
down to the
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Subject: Virginia DOT outage
As many of you may know the State of Virginia has been dealing with a major
computer system outage impacting 24 departments.
The outage has extended over 7 business days with no estimated time for
repair.
Most of the press that I have seen discusses
, September 01, 2010 2:06 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Virginia DOT outage
As many of you may know the State of Virginia has been dealing with a
major computer system outage impacting 24 departments.
The outage has extended over 7 business days with no estimated time for
repair.
Most
Regardless of the cause, doesn't this say more about the disaster recovery
scenario than anything else?
Adam
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Did you see the quote at the bottom of their Web page ( Looks like a
typical Fox channel comment ) ?
Here it is (Cut and pasted into this email ) :
Note: Earlier reports that 27 agencies were impacted were incorrect. The
correct number is 26. The 27th system impacted was Northrop Grumman.
What we can learn here is to be more careful when using modern storage
systems. They are more a computer system than storage today. And it is no
matter if you have a mainframe or a Nintendo server. Both we need data to
work.
So if you set up your DB2 or IMS, be careful to spread logs over
What we can learn here is to be more careful when using modern storage
systems. They are more a computer system than storage today. And it is no
matter if you have a mainframe or a Nintendo server. Both we need data to
work.
This has nothing to do with modern storage systems, and everything to do
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