ROTFLMAO ... Quality ... Reminds me of my first piece of work as a DB2 DBA newbie (early 90s).... trialing BMC and Platinum's Fast utilities suite ... Trial, done wrote a document recommending BMC. Document got shelved as the company did not have the money to spend. Had to move to using incremental image copies due to the shrinking batch window. Full copies at the weekend ..... You may have guessed, the application problem occurred on a Thursday ... We reckoned it would take 24 hours to get the data back ....
We had the BMC utility suite the following week .... "Ed Finnell" <[email protected]> Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" <[email protected]> 03/09/2010 01:04 AM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Virginia DOT outage >> My favorite was the hot-shot DBA that deleted 24 hours worth of processing. Oops! we'll just do a Recover To RBA and calculated the RBA just after the delete so it reloaded all the files and deleted the stuff again! Mama Mia....supper was cold that night. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 This e-mail message, including any attachments transmitted with it, is CONFIDENTIAL and may contain legally privileged information. This message is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately and delete it from your system. Please visit our website to read the full disclaimer: http://www.euroclear.com/site/public/disclaimer
