Hi John, Interesting way for my home state to get in the media!! Unfortunately the state made a "slight" mistake in this implementation. The legislature decided to change the way license plates are handled when a vehicle gets sold. They switched from the plates going with the vehicle to the plates staying with the seller. There was a hard implementation date to get this change made. Unfortunately they apparently decided to use this law change as the reason to migrate the application off the mainframe. So, they had no fall-back ability in case of problems - which apparently are myriad. One of my co-workers said he heard the application needs to be cycled multiple times a day - either to keep it from crashing or because of crashes.
Rex > Subject: South Dakota migrates off mainframe; chaos ensues > > From this week's TechTarget magazine....(watch for line wrap here) > > > http://www.mail2web.com/cgi-bin/redir.asp?lid=0&newsite=http:/ > /go.techtarget > .com/r/3997279/567145 > > DJ Tinyurl to that site. http://preview.tinyurl.com/6o4oqe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
