On Oct 25, 2007, at 9:19 AM, David Long wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:29:02 -0500, Ed Gould
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wish the person this had happened to would pipe up, but to set the
record more precisely because of a bad date RACF (This is hear say)
did something to the (RACF) database that essentially rendered the
system not operatrional. Just by IPLing (again) with the correct date
was too late as the RACF database unusable. I do not know if they had
backups or any specifics. I heard they were down for a day or so.
Luckily this was a weekend.
Ed
Ed,
In 1989 I was working in a shop where the operator accidentally
entered the
ipl date as yy/mm/98 instead of yy/mm/89. This was not noticed
until all the
jobs that read tapes started failing because the tape datasets had
expired.
I ended up writing a little program to make the operator verify
that the date
was correct before the ipl could procede.
Dave Long
Dave,
Congratulations. At one place where I worked. We had to have two
operators sign off on the date/time at IPL time. However one Sunday
when I was testing they sill managed to flub it. It didn't matter as
it was a IPL we were doing to test out an IPO.
Speaking of "operator error", this was back 30 years or so. We had a
data center that worked most weekends but not all. We had a
consulting company come in and IPL the system (on their own with no
operations people around). They IPLed with a wrong date (on purpose)
and turned off SMF and a few other things. That Monday morning I was
doing some research and ran across the IPL on a console that was out
of view of the system console. I verified with the operations people
that no one had worked and also within our sysprog group about IPL's
and it was all denied. I took the console printout up to the VP of
the data center and gave it to him and told him of my suspicions .
The jobs that were run when the system was supposed to be down were
of a division that had lots of contract programmers. The VP called up
the division's manager and let him have it. After that the data
center always had a baby sitter when no one was scheduled to work. He
charged the other 3 divisions with the labor cost of the baby sitter.
They were not happy at all. I just wish the consultants had been fired.
Ed
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