My two favorite memories are: 1 - I got called at 0230 because first the system crashed for no apparent reason, then when they went to IPL, it failed to. So I drive into work, go to the machine room, and as I am trying to figure out what is going on, I notice some tape rings on the floor. So I do some investigation and find some more, over by the disk (3350) drive area. So I look a little closer and discover that 3 of the drives had the Write Inhibit switch in the wrong position. One of them was a local page dataset, cause of the initial crash and another was the CSA page pack (which, because we IPL'd with CLPA, was the cause of the IPL failure). 2 - We had a backup site that had our prior mainframe installed. One time, while the machine was powered down, a maintenance person went to the machine room, and all the lights were off, so he reaches into the dark room and fumbles around looking for the switch, however, unknown to him, the halon dump switch was about a foot below the light switch, and guess which one his hand hit first? ============================================== Wayne Driscoll OMEGAMON DB2 L3 Support/Development wdrisco(at)us(dot)ibm(dot)com All opinions are mine, and do not represent IBM Corporation. ==============================================
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