> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chase, John > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 8:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence" > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [On Behalf Of Elardus > Engelbrecht > > > > Gabe Goldberg wrote: > > > > >Quite a deep hole SSA's dug itself into. > > > > They are having a 'catch 22' situation: > > > > 'About 42% of the agency's IT specialists are expected to retire > between > > 2010 and 2016.' > > > > and > > > > '...the agency is in the middle of a hiring freeze. ' > > That's called "government logic". :-| > > -jc-
Corporate logic around here too. We need to use IT to make our company more cost effective. And we have lain off a lot of IT people. Our systems now run "dark" starting Friday night to Monday morning. Nobody on site at all. We do have a monitor which sends SNMP traps to a server which generates service desk tickets for some events. And those result in SMS messages to the on call person. But if a job hangs on a WTOR, nobody is here to reply to it. The production control people do logon at times just to keep an eye on things. And if the monitoring server goes down, we don't know it. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
