On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:12:01 -0500, Abruzzese, Pat wrote: >I know this is off the board but I would like to know why is the >"mainframe's" down time limited when the "client/servers" >seem to going down whenever. In the middle of the morning, afternoon or >night unscheduled. My VM/ESA 2.4.0 was IPL'ed 1/09/2002 and have been up >since. I will take it down this Sunday to put Z/VM 4.3.0 in service. Why are >there two sets of standards???
It's called "managing expectations." Our Sun servers go down a lot. But users have become accustomed to it so they don't get bent out of shape by it. It is "expected behavior" on those systems. If our OS/390 system hiccups, we start getting calls immediately because our users expect it to never have such problems. It would be interesting if we ever get authorization to run Linux on our mainframe ... it might change expectations ... -- Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Y. Odo Senior Systems Programmer phone: (808)956-2383 Information Technology Services FAX: (808)956-2412 University of Hawai'i e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ....................................................................... Region Registrar phone: (808)847-1076 American Youth Soccer Organization FAX: (808)847-1076 Honolulu Region 178 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------