Re: American Airlines (was: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers)

2008-05-24 Thread Phil Smith III
Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the problem is (and was then) that the folks wanting to make an reservation switch to another airline that could sell them a ticket. That would be the problem today; back in 1989 when SABRE (to the best of my knowledge) was the main airline

American Airlines (was: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers)

2008-05-23 Thread Phil Smith III
Matthew Stitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember an article in Computer World around the early 1990's about American Airlines getting wrecked by the volume initialization joke. It was not a joke, but lack of finger checking that cause several disks of DB2 data, etc to be initialized instead of a

Re: American Airlines (was: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers)

2008-05-23 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Phil Smith III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Matthew Stitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember an article in Computer World around the early 1990's about American Airlines getting wrecked by the volume initialization joke. It was not a joke, but lack of finger