RE: Data Corruption / 400

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: MacWheel99@aol.com
>
> 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?

Mac, I have never, in over 20 years, heard of "lost" data on an IBM midrange
platform.  I have accidentally deleted libraries, grunged up access paths,
and corrupted data queues, but never has data in a physical file
mysteriously been lost or changed.

I have occasionally damaged objects, and a damaged physical file can mean
data corruption.  However, this is a very rare occurence, usually associated
with abnormal terminations or power outages.

Not only that, any seriously critical files were often journaled.  And in
that case, even if a program ran amok and wiped out data, we could reverse
the changes and recover the data.

No, the integrity of DB2/400 as compared to any PC operating system is
pretty much like comparing steel to balsa wood.

Joe