Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I remember an article in Computer World around the early 1990's about >American Airlines getting wrecked by the volume initialization "joke". It >was not a "joke", but lack of finger checking that cause several disks of >DB2 data, etc to be initialized instead of a bunch of new disk recently >installed. Took them several days to get everything back together.
The way I heard the story, from a fellow who worked there at the time, it was a TPF job that ran amok (possibly due to a finger-check, not sure) and clipped several hundred volumes. While the MVS and TPF guys were wondering whether to clean out their desks, he quietly went off and fired up a one-pack VM system and wrote an EXEC to relabel the volumes. The outage was 14 hours (at some ridiculous quoted cost like $20K/minute or something -- sure, it cost *something*, but all those folks waiting to make airline reservations didn't decide to take the train instead, they just waited, so the average per-minute booking rate was *not* a realistic cost value...but I digress). I think this was in 1989. ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
