On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 at 20:26, David Spiegel < 00000468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Hi Andrew, > You've just discovered the need for a 1-Pack (or 2-3 Pack) rescue system > with minimal software. > Surely every informed Windows user has a recovery USB stick handy... That's the Windows equivalent of the 1-Pack system. Tony H. On 2024-07-21 19:58, Andrew Rowley wrote: > > On 20/07/2024 9:31 am, Steve Beaver wrote: > >> We never had these problems until Windows showed up > > > > You can't really blame Windows in this case. > > > > If you had a linklisted, APF authorized product that hooked into > > system functions and was remotely updateable by the vendor without a > > system restart, they could equally bring down all z/OS systems > > simultaneously. That's effectively the situation here. > > > > If your auditor or CTO insisted you had to run Crowdstrike on the > > mainframe, could you say no? > > > > The biggest problem is the sheer number of systems affected. But > > recovering mainframe systems could also be a challenge, if all your > > systems are down. Time to launch your DR systems perhaps - but what if > > the offending product is part of the real time data mirrored to the DR > > site? And every customer is ringing the DR providor and declaring > > disaster? > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
