Re: Data Corruption / 400

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxx>]

You mean stuff like cross-linked files?

I can safely say that, in my 19 years in the IBM midrange, spanning S/34, S/36, 
& AS/400 (AS/400 since the beginning), with hundreds of clients, I have never 
witnessed data corruption that was not caused by an application error.

Ask those Microsofties if they've ever had a system lose power on an expansion 
box housing a raided disk set for 15-30 minutes (and this happened several 
times over the course of a year that we know about) and THE SYSTEM NEVER 
BLINKED!  (Unless you consider sending a message to QSYSOPR a blink, well 
then...)  Let's see Windoze handle that!  (hah! when pigs fly!)

- Dan Bale
offsite today

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: MacWheel99@aol.com
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date:  Mon, 8 Apr 2002 16:29:27 EDT

>Has anyone EVER suffered data corruption on their 400 business data bases or
>ever heard of it happening for some reason other than failure of hard drives,
>damaged objects, human error, software bugs, PC user in middle of doing some
>update & the connection gets lost & the software was not written good enough
>to recover from that scenario, malicious activity like hacker or someone who
>lost their job & took improper action?
>
>Feel free to reply to me off list about this.
>
>I have a collegue who is in a heated discussion on in some list in the PC
>Windows Macintosh world.  They apparently take it for granted that reality is
>that there are operating system crashes all the time that scramble business
>data.  My friend says that in his many decades experience in the IBM world,
>this has NEVER happened there.
>
>These Microsoft enthusiasts are flatly disbelieving him ... it must be a
>fluke for him.  So he looking for a quick poll ... how many years experience
>someone in IBM 400 & its predecessor platforms & how many times has this
>happened to you?  So that he can then say to these guys ... well X people in
>the 400 community who said they have Y aggregate years have only heard of
>this happening however many times.  So if it is a fluke, here is how many
>other people are having that fluke.
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