RE: Dumb Things People Do

About a week into my first as400 programming job the department manager was giving me a tour of the company that ended up in the computer room. There were a few 400's he walked over to one and told me it was the one I was programming on. Then he went on to say, "whatever you do, don't push this big red toggle switch down like this". The interlock key was not set to the correct position, he shut down the production machine supporting the cable company. In a few minutes every office was calling in, CSR's were going crazy. Payments, new customers, collections, everything, down...all heck broke loose.
I learned my lesson though, I've never touched a big red toggle switch since that day.

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Bill

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Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 4:43 PM
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A few years ago I wanted to remove 11 obsolete MAPICS license keys. The keys were for license term V5R2 and I determined that after doing a RMVLICKEY, I could prompt and get all parameters. I figured instead of deleting the 11 keys individually, if I was careful and put in the right parms, I could delete all 11 keys at once.

I wasn't careful enough and deleted our IBM LPP keys too.

I then found out it's really wise to have a hard copy of all your keys. I didn't have one but somehow I made just one call to IBM (imagine that) and received an e-mail with the LPP keys. We didn't miss a beat but I was sweating bullets until I added the missing keys.

The eleven obsolete keys are still in the repository, I just don't have the stomach to remove them.

Bryan Burns
iSeries Specialist
ECHO, Incorporated
Lake Zurich, Illinois

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 1:32 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Dumb Things People Do

Hi Folks... I'm looking to compile a list of (hopefully humorous)
"Dumb Things People Do" to be published in System iNEWS magazine.


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