Re: Wells Fargo? Well f*&%#d at the moment: Data center up in smoke, bank website, app down . The Register

2019-02-08 Thread Jim IBMMain
The DataCenter where I use to work at had a Halon dump, on the system that supported the Silo's.. (Five of them), During the annual service check by the Halon Fire Vendor something happened during the test and it set off the Halon . All sort of alarms went off, the Building was evacuated, (

Re: hsm questions

2019-03-13 Thread Jim IBMMain
1. Yes, you can manually delete them. I setup a SMS Management class for them to migrate them directly to ML2 after 2 days, Did a Activity Swap log daily. and Delete for non/use after 35 days of non use, (I think the backup were kept for 60 to 90 days after deletion). 2. Not sure about the fr

Re: Incoming | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2019-04-13 Thread Jim IBMMain
We had a fun one ... We had a STK Silo and we were getting "random" late afternoon barcode read error from the camera inside the Silo, CE would be called, Could find nothing wrong. This went on for about month or so, Not every day but a few times a week, It stumped everyone, So the next tim

Re: DR Failover

2019-05-08 Thread Jim IBMMain
We had worked out "In Theory" how we would do it. About 18 months after we opened our second data center, Our Main Data Center needed to shutdown over a long weekend, for 100% shutdown power maintenance. After the Online's were shutdown Friday Night, We waited for all the DASD & Tape to sync