I worked for a company in 1988 after the Mother's Day Phone telephone switching station fire. We had a site in the Chicago area, and a second in Arizona, connected by 2 T1 lines. The lines were from different carriers, and there was only one point on the route that the lines had in common, sadly, it was the central office that caught fire. Took almost a month for Illinois Bell and AT&T to get things back to normal.
=============================================== Wayne Driscoll OMEGAMON DB2 L3 Support/Development wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com =============================================== From: Ted MacNEIL <eamacn...@yahoo.ca> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 06/22/2011 03:18 PM Subject: Re: DR Plans (WAS: Escon and Ficon Extensions) Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> >It's amazing what comes up in an actual disaster that never made it into our semi-annual tests. Considering the circumstances of a disaster, it wouldn't amaze me. In 1969, the Canadian government started forcing all financial institutions, over a certain size, to implement a DR plan, and test it. After the first few attempts, they came back to the Banks, and said: We hope you have the disaster you planned for! They made the Banks get real, or they would start regulating it. I worked for a company that never got to the point where a user could enter a transaction, nor submit a job, yet they classified all tests successful. The classic example (written up in DR Journal) was a company, in New Orleans, during Katrina. They had a DR Site in Arizona, got the apps up, the staff up, and even had a box of cell phones for everybody to use. The problem was that the phones all had New Orleans' area codes. So, nobody could call them because the CO servicing them was under water, hence offline. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
