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Post #196,990
by jbrabeck
3/3/05 7:20:58 AM
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New Need some help?
been there, done that.

Once was mgr at a company where everything (order entry, inventory, BOM, Invoicing, pricing, shipping labels, pick lists, and don't recall what else) was done in ONE huge cobol program. Thing was so fragile, changing a flag in on spot could cause the program to abend in a completely different area. Had to carry a copy of the program with me at all times, even on vacation (once had to perform fix during a convention I was attending) in case of problems.

Send me the program, I'd love to be "productive" again. Producing Disaster Recovery plans that can never be used is getting tiring.
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
Post #197,019
by drewk
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3/3/05 11:51:28 AM
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New *Can* never be, or *hopefully* will never be?
Just curious if it's a total boondoggle, or the general problem that you hope you never use your work.
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Post #197,021
by jbrabeck
3/3/05 12:04:19 PM
3/3/05 5:10:42 PM
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New I'll keep it simple
Realized that the info is possibly restricted. I must be careful about what I say.

Still stands, if a disaster occurs here, the contingency plans would have to work for months (instead of the planned days) until normal operations could be stored.

Now you know why I get so frustrated at times.
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Post #197,024
by drewk
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3/3/05 12:26:26 PM
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New bbb ... b ... b .. bb ... bbbbb ...
Excuse me for a second while I push my eyes back into my head. Wow. Just, wow. One of your steps is, "Here, a miracle happens." Isn't it?
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Post #197,034
by folkert
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3/3/05 1:04:40 PM
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New It is like this:
  1. Primary site has <insert disaster>
  2. Open a Retail Box marked "6 steps to a Miracle, in 10 minutes"©
  3. Sprinkle new and improved "Fairy Dust"™ throughout primary site...
  4. Open can marked "Miracle in a Can"™ spray around on dust from previous step.
  5. Goto nearest major body of water, Part it, for vendor train of goods
  6. Stack all hardware in the primary site
  7. Push the silvery button on "Miracle in a Can"™
  8. Wait ten minutes, open door.
  9. Everything is restored and functional


The only thing you have to worry about is getting your Vendors the same Kit you bought, so they can produce your needed items quickly.
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Post #197,069
by jbrabeck
3/3/05 5:11:39 PM
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New That's plural... Miracles. Greg got it in his post.
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
Post #197,088
by broomberg
3/3/05 6:21:51 PM
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New Send an email to the admin
Beg removal. Edit history is here forever.
Post #198,200
by gdaustin
3/12/05 12:03:44 PM
3/12/05 12:07:57 PM
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New Disaster Recovery
I have you beat. A SAN storage vendor has arrived at my company promising "DR in a box". Our legacy EDI system isn't on "that storage", but a shared adapter storage. They advised us that we would be running our EDI on "NFS mounted drives". Our hardware is "too old" to put on the SAN.

We were laughing in Oct/Nov as the vendor interviewed us and proposed plans.

They were approved by our board, so now we're crying. Our clustered file storage solution is on the "wrong vendor". In Oct/Nov advised them that the testing alone would grow our dept by 4 people. We're losing 1 person.

Add to that SarbOx, Production Support for Legacy system, developing the replacement system for Legacy, and the No More Pain project and we're over the top.
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     I've recently signed up for a deathmarch. - (broomberg) - (27) - March 1, 2005, 10:39:53 PM EST
         Luck! I think you'll need it. :-( -NT - (Another Scott) - March 1, 2005, 10:46:46 PM EST
         reverse engineer - (boxley) - (1) - March 1, 2005, 10:49:55 PM EST
             HEHEHEH - (broomberg) - March 1, 2005, 11:05:12 PM EST
         I know you like pain - (ben_tilly) - March 1, 2005, 11:09:21 PM EST
         Been there - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:44:44 AM EDT
             I did that once. - (static) - March 3, 2005, 01:34:19 AM EST
         volunteered for this? - (cforde) - (1) - March 2, 2005, 02:57:56 AM EST
             Not exactly - (broomberg) - March 2, 2005, 06:43:12 AM EST
         Parse Error - (pwhysall) - (1) - March 2, 2005, 03:43:03 AM EST
             Deathmatch? - (broomberg) - March 2, 2005, 06:32:27 AM EST
         Oh, man. - (imric) - (8) - March 2, 2005, 06:56:50 AM EST
             No it wasn't. - (broomberg) - (7) - March 2, 2005, 06:45:05 PM EST
                 Again, I hate COBOL. -NT - (imric) - (2) - March 2, 2005, 06:51:39 PM EST
                     Oh, that's not COBOL. I can write that kind of code in Java. - (Arkadiy) - (1) - March 3, 2005, 09:33:43 AM EST
                         That KIND of code, sure. - (imric) - March 3, 2005, 09:49:49 AM EST
                 That looks like some of my QuickBASIC code. :-/ -NT - (Another Scott) - March 3, 2005, 09:37:31 AM EST
                 Now I see why it's a bear to maintain.... - (gdaustin) - (2) - March 12, 2005, 11:06:12 AM EST
                     Now??? - (broomberg) - (1) - March 12, 2005, 11:55:47 AM EST
                         No.. I stopped coding like that 10 years ago.... - (gdaustin) - March 12, 2005, 12:11:41 PM EST
         Need some help? - (jbrabeck) - (7) - March 3, 2005, 07:20:58 AM EST
             *Can* never be, or *hopefully* will never be? - (drewk) - (5) - March 3, 2005, 11:51:28 AM EST
                 I'll keep it simple - (jbrabeck) - (4) - March 3, 2005, 05:10:42 PM EST
                     bbb ... b ... b .. bb ... bbbbb ... - (drewk) - (2) - March 3, 2005, 12:26:26 PM EST
                         It is like this: - (folkert) - March 3, 2005, 01:04:40 PM EST
                         That's plural... Miracles. Greg got it in his post. -NT - (jbrabeck) - March 3, 2005, 05:11:39 PM EST
                     Send an email to the admin - (broomberg) - March 3, 2005, 06:21:51 PM EST
             Disaster Recovery - (gdaustin) - March 12, 2005, 12:07:57 PM EST

You have mushrooms walking around. What do you expect?
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