In , on
11/30/2010
at 09:57 PM, Mike Schwab said:
>Here is an idea to bounce around. z/OS Unix System Services does a
>lot of work converting ASCII to EBCDIC and back. z/Linux works all
>in ASCII.
I doubt it.
>Could we do some sort of Unicode translation?
We already do.
>Have GPR2 point
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Ron Hawkins
wrote:
> If I remember rightly it was a bug in IMS 2.2 or 2.3. If I remember
> correctly NAB (where I worked at the time) had found the bug in stress and
> regression testing (TPNS for those that remember it) and were waiting for
> the fix that hit Westp
On 30 November 2010 22:57, Mike Schwab wrote:
> Here is an idea to bounce around. z/OS Unix System Services does a
> lot of work converting ASCII to EBCDIC and back.
I'm puzzled by this. What is all this conversion work that takes to
much time and effort? To the extent that character coding is
On 11/30/2010 10:34 PM, Jim Phoenix wrote:
Mike Schwab wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
My same source related the tale of a person in same bank who received
an EBCDIC file, opened it in Windows and saved it back as ASCII. The
file was duly transferred for proce
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> Nostalgia, don't you just love it.
>
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Chris,
If I remember rightly it was a bug in IMS 2.2 or 2.3. If I remember
correctly NAB (where I worked at the time) had found the bug in stress and
regression testing (TPN
2010 5:01 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] I would love to know what went wrong at NAB
>
> Some information from a close source...
>
> It was a plain old S0C7 during their batch process.
>
> All Aussie banks use Cemtex ABA format which has been around for year
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> Chris Craddock
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> On Tue, Nov 30,
A comment here:-
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/human-error-triggered-nab-
software-corruption/story-e6frgakx-1225962953523
"The "file" was actually software code containing instructions on how systems
should operate in the batch processing cycle."
would lead me to think someone
Mike Schwab wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
My same source related the tale of a person in same bank who received
an EBCDIC file, opened it in Windows and saved it back as ASCII. The
file was duly transferred for processing on the mainframe. Most of the
packe
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Chase, John wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shane
> >
> > As if.
> > Can't you just imagine a major Aussie Bank doing that. You were at
> Bank
> > of NSW when they had the IMS fiasco Steve - how much info
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shane
>
> As if.
> Can't you just imagine a major Aussie Bank doing that. You were at
Bank
> of NSW when they had the IMS fiasco Steve - how much info on that got
> out ? (via Bank press releases I mean :-)
Yeh I
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
> My same source related the tale of a person in same bank who received
> an EBCDIC file, opened it in Windows and saved it back as ASCII. The
> file was duly transferred for processing on the mainframe. Most of the
> packed data was garbag
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
> Some information from a close source...
>
> It was a plain old S0C7 during their batch process.
>
> All Aussie banks use Cemtex ABA format which has been around for years
> as a transfer format between organisations. You would think that
Some information from a close source...
It was a plain old S0C7 during their batch process.
All Aussie banks use Cemtex ABA format which has been around for years
as a transfer format between organisations. You would think that there
is a validate step before running the transactions against thei
As if.
Can't you just imagine a major Aussie Bank doing that. You were at Bank
of NSW when they had the IMS fiasco Steve - how much info on that got
out ? (via Bank press releases I mean :-)
Shane ...
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:52:08 +1100
Stephen Mednick wrote:
> One wonders if a detailed explanati
>I'd bet that the upgrade was to the application system, not the mainframe, and
>something was wrong in a new application program that corrupted the file.
I wouldn't take the opposite of that bet!
>I'm wondering why it took 5 days to recover.
Since, upon reading the article, I see that INFOSYS
In , on 11/30/2010
at 12:54 AM, Sheldon Davis said:
>I would love to know how a corrupt system file in a parrallel sysplex
>can affect a payroll system
Why? That's not what the article claims. "a corrupted file on an IBM
mainframe system" is quite different from "a corrupt system file".
>Fro
as City
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One wonders if a detailed explanation of wh
love to know what went wrong at NAB
I would love to know how a corrupt system file in a parrallel sysplex can
affect a payroll system
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/11/29/nab_mainframe_cockup/
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On 30/11/2010 6:12 PM, Mike Schwab wrote:
That was not payroll. That was a bank. They screwed up all
transactions for a week after a conversion and fallback. I would be
really curious as to how the database was functioning without crashing
while processing all those bad transactions.
Almost
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Of Sheldon Davis
Sent: Tuesday, 30 November 2010 5:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: I would love to know what went wrong at NAB
I would love to know how a corrupt system file in a parrallel sysplex can
affect a
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Sheldon Davis wrote:
> I would love to know how a corrupt system file in a parrallel sysplex can
> affect
> a payroll system
>
> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/11/29/nab_mainframe_cockup/
That was not payroll. That was a bank. They screwed up all
transa
I would love to know how a corrupt system file in a parrallel sysplex can
affect
a payroll system
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/11/29/nab_mainframe_cockup/
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