From: nse@eliasen.co   
      
   Hi Arne   
   I am impressed... :_) where did you read/see this ??   
      
   On 2025-12-18, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   > On 11/11/2025 10:50 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >> On 11/3/2025 8:31 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   >>> What are they moving to, and how are they satisfying the extremely high   
   >>> constraints both on software and hardware availability, failure   
   >>> detection,   
   >>> and recovery that z/OS and its underlying hardware provides ?   
   >>>   
   >>> z/OS has a unique set of capabilities when it comes to the absolutely   
   >>> critical this _MUST_ continue working or the country/company dies area.   
   >>   
   >> Note that even though z/OS and mainframes generally have a   
   >> good track recording regarding availability, then it is not   
   >> a magic solution - they can also have problems.   
   >>   
   >> Banks having mainframe problems are rare but far from   
   >> unheard of.   
   >   
   > And speaking of.   
   >   
   > A lot of banking services were down Monday in Denmark.   
   >   
   > Because a bank mainframe was down for 5 hours.   
   >   
   > Both the company and the country survived.  :-)   
   >   
   > As often is the case the root cause was simple and   
   > stupid. A capacity management application took away   
   > the resources needed to process transactions.   
   >   
   > Arne   
   >   
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