Anne, I do not remember specifics. As it's been 40 years but we had a nasty sort issue one quarter the software group had installed a new sort that we found out that wouldn't allow us to sort on a half byte (4 bits). We had a system that didn't have the sign on numerical fields (packed unsigned) to save dasd space. We had to jury rig the sort to sort the fields correctly. That was the closest we ever came to not opening at 8 AM. Ed
On Oct 30, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> wrote: > ps2...@yahoo.com (Ed Gould) writes: >> John, >> Way back in the '70's I used to work on a online savings system. At >> that time all banks were closed on weekends. It was great as we had >> test time a plenty. We ran into a time crunch was every quarter we had >> to calculate interest before 8 AM. We had zero allowance for >> problems. From close of business till 8 AM it was intense. > > re: > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#64 Maintenance at two in the > afternoon? On a Friday? > > most card processing backends are "frozen" this time of year until > possibly mid-january (transaction rates ramps-up until x-mas and then > some returns) > > -- > virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
