1981 - dual 370/168s MP'ed together. A sysprog coworker applied maintenance to AbendAid, then left town for the weekend. Turns out he linked RTM in the nucleus incorrectly and the scheduled Sunday night IPL failed with a disabled wait state. We can't find the FDR/SAR tape backup of the sysres. Tried to IPL SAR from the card reader with a punched card deck, that failed.
Now we are getting desperate; it's 2AM Monday morning. We talked our IBM CE into removing the HDA from the 3350 sysres and we take it across town to a friendly MVS shop. He removed the HDA from one of their 3350s, installs our HDA and we fix the problem there, then he deinstalls our HDA, we take it back to our shop, reinstall it in our 3350, then IPL just in time for CICS to come up at 6AM. A very bad night. Mike Shaw QuickRef Support Chisoft On Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 1:33 PM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Gee, this is more of a nostalgia thread than most ... > > My very first programming job, the tape librarian quit. (Remember tape > libraries and librarians and manual tape management?). Our boss was too > cheap to hire a replacement with any overlap in employment dates. So the > new woman started with no tape librarian experience. Everything seemed to > be going well for a couple of weeks ... until it turned out that if she got > a scratch request and could not find the volume -- perhaps it was lying on > someone's desk or something like that -- she would scratch the closest > match she *could* find. For example, if the scratch request was for VOLSER > 274382 and she couldn't find it, she might scratch 274383 because it was > the closest match she could find. Just trying to do the best job she could > ... > > Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
