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Talked to a married couple at COMMON. They both worked at one of these multi thousand AS/400 shops. Each one is exactly the same. One dies, and IBM ships one in immediately. They are preloaded at IBM with SAVSTG / RSTSTG waiting for just such an emergency. Some of the finance companies do the same thing. I think AM General is like this. Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com "DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 08/12/2004 03:13 PM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Fax to Subject RE: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul I think that was State Farm.... Farmers Bureau had(has) massive operations centers that house their host systems. State Farm parked an as400 in each office.... Eric DeLong Sally Beauty Company MIS-Project Manager (BSG) 940-898-7863 or ext. 1863 -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:14 PM To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' Subject: RE: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul Pat wrote: <I know of two companies that had 4,000 S/36's installed between the two of them.> One of them was Farm Bureau ? Chuck -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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