I see someone who has never worked in health care where the mainframe processes each drug prescribed and checks for drug interactions in a microsecond. Yes, people die if the mainframe isn’t available. It’s also why there are plenty of pharmacies open 24 hours and why hospitals have pharmacies.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 1:33 AM, kekronbekron <000002dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Critical infra in some places, sure, not everyone is denying that. At the moment of urgent need, do people really buy something and wait for MF to finish processing, for them to be then allowed to continue breathing? What happened to the interim stages (logstics etc). It sounds as though failure to buy/order something immediately is going to lead to their death... is what's being said. Sounds pretty privileged to me. It also sounds like it's assumed that mainframes will last 500 years, no? Did the world not exist before 1960s? Did people automatically die before 1960s because they didn't have MF? Are people and organizations not allowed to be wrong (to their own detriment), etc. Are we sure that 100% of all information out there is truth, apart from this announcement that AWS wants to replace MF? We can all like MF, but don't need to act like it's the sole saviour of humanity. Again that means that all technology that evolved since then is a complete waste of time and people's efforts. Sounds pretty delusional to me... just to convey that MFs are good servers. - KB ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 at 10:00 AM, Bill Johnson <00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > AWS had a larger & longer outage today, than all the outages on the > mainframes I’ve worked on in the last 30 years. Much worse. Yet, some here > think AWS is going to replace the mainframe for critical applications like > banking, health care, big retail, and insurance. Plus, the mainframe has had > plenty of negative posts here in the decades I’ve been involved. Nobody dies > when Netflix isn’t available. (One of the hits from today) people can and do > die if the drugs they need aren’t available because the computer system is > down. > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, 11:01 PM, kekronbekron > 000002dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: > > Not at anybody in particular: > > Do we have to make snide remarks because someone else had an outage? > > Don't we remember the times when things on the mainframe itself went south? > > Has every site's MF env. been 100% available through all these decades? > > Is it wrong to fail sometimes? > > Is this the attitude with which you'd like to retire, holding onto precious > remarks and burning the path behind you as you leave? > > What does that say about one's mentality and outlook in life? > > - KB > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 at 3:54 AM, Ronald Wells >000002ebc63ff5ef-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: > > > Pretty pic/web pages make the $$ did you not get the memo > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf Of > > John McKown > > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 2:57 PM > > > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > > > Subject: Re: AWS is down. > > > > ** EXTERNAL EMAIL - USE CAUTION ** > > > > Oh, but they advertise that they can replace mainframe. Well, maybe the > > processing. But not the on site reliability. Of course, for WFH, the > > internet is the week point. And, most likely, also the home equipment. I > > just had to reboot my Windows PC at home because it decided to stop talking > > to my internet router. > > > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2021, 12:49 Bill Johnson < > > 00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > > > Amazon Web Services is down. I can’t get to my pictures. Glad we don’t > > > > > > have our mainframe running there. > > > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > > > > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > Email Disclaimer > > > > This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, > > which may be legally privileged information. 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