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We were also exceptionally fortunate because everyone off the system
because they knew I would be doing EOM. I was at an EOM stage I call
"Point of No Return", where I have run a ton of standard reports, but
before doing certain end fiscal rollovers of records, we launch a backup.
Had I run the backup on normal schedule, the outage would have taken the
system down in the middle of the backup, and maybe damaged the backup tape,
which is rather expensive. However, before launching backup, I was
throwing together new queries to extract totals in a couple areas of recent
hot topic interest.
We had had a recent change in where the company wants cost of goods in
credit memos to hit the GL, so I was getting new queries to extract totals
of what was going on there.
Also we have reports showing total sales for the month, and total sales of
items sold, which have cost data, and input to receivables factoring in 2%
if paid in 10 days ... questions had been raised about discrepancies
between these different totals, so I was adding queries to extract totals
of sales of non-items & some other areas to try to reconcile the differences.
So when the power went out, the only stuff on the system was me creating
some new query definitions. That was a heck of a lot better than had it
happened while backup was running, or mass of users doing their daily things.
We were fortunate because our system ABEND (due to an erroneous power
failure message) occurred at 4:30:22 on a Saturday morning when there very
little activity on the system.
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