On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:00:01 -0300, Clark Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>On 8 Jul 2009 10:01:22 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > >>Planned IBMLink Outage July 10-11 >> >>This is to inform you that IBMLink will have a planned outage starting >>on Friday, July 10 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time through Saturday, July 11 at >>8:00 AM Eastern Time (Saturday, July 10 from 01:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC). >>This planned outage will occur because of the installation of our July >>fixpack, which will include improvements to the IBMLink platform and its >>applications. During this time, you will not be able to access IBMLink. >> >>We would like to remind you that there is a maintenance window scheduled >>every Saturday night from 11:00 PM Eastern Time through Sunday at 9:00 >>AM Eastern Time (Sundays 03:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC). This window may be >>used for normal maintenance of the infrastructure on which IBMLink >>resides. During this time, you may not be able to access IBMLink. > >Haven't they heard about 24/7/365.25. If I wasn't semi-retired, I >would be submitting a SHARE requirement and if rejected, I would >seriously consider embarrassing publicity, say at an annual meeting of >IBM. >> >>Thank you for your patience and understanding. >> >> >I would have no patience and less understanding. The funny thing is that i remeber the big adverts about consolidating their infrastructure and putting everything on Z boxes all over the world. I just wondered if they succeeded :-)) I know it is uncalled for ... but on the other hand if we were stopping our own applications for such a duration , i am quite sure they would give us some advice on how to solve that ! Bruno Sugliani zxnetconsult(at)free(dot)fr http://zxnetconsult.free.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
