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Back in the day, I was in a shop where the IT lady swore her payroll data
was totally secure. A few minutes later, WRKOUTQ showed an output queue
named W2. You should have seen her face when I pointed out spool files
containing their last 5 years of W2's.
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
DrFranken
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 10:46 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IBM i data deletion
On 9/26/2016 7:39 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
Knew a shop that when they ran executive payroll the computer room was
emptied except for this one person. They restored the executive payroll
data. They ran the payroll. When they were done they saved the data and
removed it with the ERASE option.
Back when Dad was a repair guy he got a call to fix a printer. When he
showed up the computer room door was tagged: "Do not Enter, payroll in
process." He went to the help desk and asked "How long before they are
done?" Help desk replied: "Dunno. Their printer is busted." Dad said:
"Which way to the coffee?"
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.
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