John/John,

Yeppers, one has to be intelligent and open-minded to understand IT, it's
people, equip etc.
I keep thinking I am a odd duck, I grewup with IT since about age 5-6 ,
father working for Unisys.

I have similar situations when managers don't understand a Mainframe isn't
a PC when writing code or doing a project...


Scott

On Monday, August 22, 2016, John McKown <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:48 AM, John Mattson <[email protected]
> <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps the rush to eliminate mainframes is to eliminate the
> embarrassment
> > of having them not fail when most everything else does.
> >
> >
> ​Most likely. I remember the mainframe being "stuck" with a severity 1
> incident report as being "unavailable for work". Why was it unavailable?
> Because the LAN routers took a hit. When we complained that the problem was
> not in the mainframe, we were told "It doesn't matter, the users couldn't
> use it. The reason is irrelevant." Basically, the PWBs wanted to give the
> impression "up stairs" that the mainframe was no more reliable than
> anything else.​
>
>
>
> --
> Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within.
>
> Maranatha! <><
> John McKown
>
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