Ed, Agreed...
I think we would all be appalled and scared crap-less (to put it nicely) if we all really knew the true state of BCP's at many companies. There should be more customer involvement in DR; built into the contracts. IOW, review of required test results, etc., if the customer so chooses; at a minimum, so that they can tell that a test was done! Rigid accountability to those that make the company viable is the only way towards improvement here. Scott T. Harder Mainframe Services, Inc. Naples, FL > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ed Gould > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape > > ________________________________ > From: Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, March 29, 2010 8:35:23 PM > Subject: Re: Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape > > >I thinkk you'll find a significant, though maybe not large, number of > shops running straight from the grid today. For those shops, the cost of > an outage may be lower than the cost of power conditioning and/or UPS > equipment. > > Wow! > I haven't worked at a shop without conditioning and UPS since the early > 1980's. > > And, GTA power was pretty noisy back then. > So, nobody ran raw, that I know of. > ---------------- > > Ted: > > But there are more than a few out there that do not. I shudder at such > places. Some places have 24 X 7 X 7 requirements and they still do not > have it. > I was at one place and their DR scenario was to go offsite to an obsolete > system that was 10 years old when it was started. They sit there at board > meetings and with a straight face say they have DR working perfectly. > Chuckle chuckle The system they want to IPL won't because they refuse to > believe you cannot just IPL any old version of MVS. > > Ed > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
