Chris, If I remember rightly it was a bug in IMS 2.2 or 2.3. If I remember correctly NAB (where I worked at the time) had found the bug in stress and regression testing (TPNS for those that remember it) and were waiting for the fix that hit Westpac. Funny how times have changed.
Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > Chris Craddock > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 8:56 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] I would love to know what went wrong at NAB > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Chase, John <jch...@ussco.com> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shane > > > > > > As if. > > > Can't you just imagine a major Aussie Bank doing that. You were at > > Bank > > > of NSW when they had the IMS fiasco Steve - how much info on that got > > > out ? (via Bank press releases I mean :-) > > > > Yeh.... It's probably a near-universal trait that "dirty laundry" is > > "washed" discreetly.... :-) > > > > > This would be one of those rare cases where the story was big enough that > there wasn't a lot of room for discrete laundering. It was actually Westpac > by then (btw) and I was there too. That "event" wasn't a single outage, but > rather a series of them wound around failed restart/recovery processing that > eventually took several days to fully recover from. There wasn't any news > coverage at first, but the scale of the problem had made the press by the > second day. Once it had there was plenty of blame storming to go around. I > don't recall whether the bank actually issued press releases but their point > of view certainly did make it into the press coverage. > > > > -- > This email might be from the > artist formerly known as CC > (or not) You be the judge. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
