>>>Well, of course outages are desirable! Imagine having to put in a full day of work with no breaks for an outage. Why, the amount of RSI claims will sky rocket! The BSOD is just Microsoft's way of making sure that your health is protected from excessive, consecutive hours of work. Besides, "the computer is broke again" is a favored excuse that is acceptable to both management and clients! And excuses the worker from any responsibility. Loverly!<<<
So CICS takes a few minutes bog time to process an abended transaction and the phones light up. My former POE once took a week to fully rebuild and restore an email server, and that was acceptable. If you drive a Mercedes, then, it shouldn't stop unexpectedly while your Chevy Aveo can stop once a day and have to be restarted? Cow muffins as Col. Potter would say. Daniel McLaughlin ZOS Systems Programmer Crawford & Company PH: 770 621 3256 * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
