RE: Y2K Switch off

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

>>At 12:19 PM 9/28/99 -0500, John Cirocco wrote:
>> >Colin,
>> >
>> >   We are bringing our plants mission critical pieces Friday and bringing
>> >them up Sunday morning.  We have been told that the local energy supplier
>> >expects no MAJOR problems but there is always the possibility of
>> >localized problems.  Since my UPS has minutes vs. hours of uptime, we
>> >felt it best to shut the stuff down.
>>
>>At 14:08 09/28/1999 , Glenn Ericson wrote:
>>Sounds  like  solid  logic  to me.
>>         Glenn
>>
> At 09:35 PM 9/28/99 -0500, Pete Hall  wrote:
>I've been thinking about that too. The only concern I would have is what if 
>one or (shudder) two of the disk drives refuse to spin up? If everything 
>cools off for 8 hours or so, might this be a problem? I propose doing a 
>complete system save immediately before. Maybe even two of them.
>
>Pete Hall
>pbhall@execpc.com
>http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
>+---
Pete  Colin   etal.
If  electrical power is gone  it is almost certain that the MIS Staff will be focusing on their  personal @home concerns  Vs  the AS/400.  Doing  commerce of  any  sort will be  extremely difficult.

FWIW  I  do  not  expect to see long electrical outages.  The outages, even short,  remain problematical.  IF the AS400s environment  changes  drastically , you  should  expect some  sort of startup  problems.  My advice to clients is to include  that thought in their Y2K DR plans. I am  not particularly fond of  alternative  resource space  heaters to  keep  thy  DASD  warm., and prefer to wait  a few hours after the power is restored[ and  stabilized through the massive turn-on  electrical surges] and use supplemental electrical heaters. 


Regards,

Glenn
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