On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> 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 there > is a validate step before running the transactions against their > databases. > > > A couple of things: > > Most of the support is now with the sub-continent... > The previous grey-haired support staff were either laid off or moved > to "greener pastures" > Not many local staff are competent to manually reprocess or react to > this situation. > > As a previous poster noted, probably the new transaction batch goes to > a GDG, the failed process was missed and batch read yesterday's GDG > and hence all the double transactions. > > 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 garbaged ...... > > Oh my, dumb and dumber.... > > Frightening. > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Shane <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 explanation of what transpired will be > >> forthcoming as was the case back in July when the DBS Bank in > >> Singapore had a major outage. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > > > > > -- > Wayne V. Bickerdike > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
