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2000-05-30 |
A dry but grey day with temperatures going from a cool 6°C to a blistering ... 14°C. Well dry until about four o clock, when it begins to rain. Most Americans were serious about their Remembrance day yesterday.
Every remembrance day up to now has been chance to learn from the mistakes in the past.
The AS/400 starts from the wrong IPL-side (Initial Program Load; that is like booting from an alternative partition) with a different set of PTFs (Program Temporal Fix; IBM-speek for OS-patches) since the power cut a few weeks ago. This could be causing the problem we have with the synchronization on the DataBase schema for TOS. Pieter reported a problem with the new TeleSales installation in Austria. A nasty type of problem : "Sometimes some items cannot be ordered". That the programs work flawlessly () in Germany, the US and the other opcos obviously does not mean a thing to him. After trawling trough the messages (in German) and checking their system we find that they did recompile the files. Of course they did not use the correct compile parameters and switches. For common operations in OMSI-3 that is not a problem because the access paths are always specified. Some uncommon operations in OMSI-3 and Logistics doe run into problems and of course TeleSales hits problems as well.
Another problem in Austria is a non-deleted record in the invoice print file. This cancels the printing program. That was just a single old record that remained in the file after a previous crash. Koen deleted that so they can go on.
In the news:
Most interesting, from my point of view, is Pandora, the Internet department of Telenet. Some months ago they limited the upstream speed to 128kbps (victim of their own success). This will be pulled up again (at a cost of course) to 256 at first and maybe more later. Also, instead of being cut off when going over your budget you will be allowed to continue, at a reduced speed. My main (or should I read Vain) hope is that this will put some extra competitive preasure on the clasic telecom operator, Belgacom. So maybe I can get a DSL line at last and for a reasonable price. |
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