re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#31 "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#35 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#37 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#43 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#44 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
there is also some possibility that the opposition to my providing FBA support was simply POK favorite son operating system campaign against me. after transferring to the west coast, they let me wander around and get into trouble. In the disk development and test labs (bldg. 14 & 15 on san jose plant site) ... they were doing stand-alone, dedicated time, around the clock, 7x24 scheduled testings. They mentioned that they had tried MVS ... hoping to do multiple concurrent testing in operating system enviornment ... but even with just a single 'testcell" (development device), MVS had 15min MTBF. I offerred to redo IOS to make it absolute bullet proof & never fail ... providing them with multiple concurrent, "on-demand" testing (significantly increasing development productivity since they now could test anytime they needed w/o having to wait for scheduled, dedicated time). I did an internal report on many of the items which happened to make passing reference to the MVS 15min MTBF. I was then called by somebody from the POK favorite son operating system ... and foolish me, I thot it was going to be about getting all the enhances incorporated, but they were bringing down their forces on my head ... wanting to know who my manager was ... and trying to make sure I never mentioned anything about them again (preferrably even no longer being an employee). Ferguson & Morris 1993 book describes that in the wake of FS failure, the corporate culture had been replaced with sycophancy and "make no waves" ... or in Boyd terms having to make a career choice between "To Be or To Do" ... from dedication of Boyd Hall at Air Force Weapons School, 17Sep1999 ... reference http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#35 This is discussed recently in (linkedin) former/current IBM group ... in IBM Jargon definition of "fast track" (sub)thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#12 I actually miss working at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#13 I actually miss working at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#15 I actually miss working at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#16 I actually miss working at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#78 I actually miss working at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#7 I actually miss working at IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#9 I actually miss working at IBM since they were already doing their worst ... it didn't matter later, related to 3380 ship (had been announced Jun80) ... I send email about standard collection of error tests (to be expected at customers) ... MVS was failing in all cases & in 2/3rds of the cases, there was no indication of what forced the re-ipl ... old email: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801015 misc. past posts getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15 (which still exist at the plant site, although many others have been plowed under) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk ... footnote ... I had sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM ... misc. past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
