Steve, Actually it is sort of disappointing that some of the practices that made this stuff bullet proof are being pigeon holed as "legacy systems" and removed from the process.
A bit like throwing the baby out with the bath water. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > Stephen Mednick > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 12:19 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] I would love to know what went wrong at NAB > > Nostalgia, don't you just love it. > > > Stephen Mednick > Computer Supervisory Services > Sydney, Australia > > Asia/Pacific representatives for > Innovation Data Processing, Inc. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Ron Hawkins > Sent: Wednesday, 1 December 2010 7:12 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: I would love to know what went wrong at NAB > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
