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Re: IBMLINK-SEV1 32141089-->now 11:15 maybe

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Robert Justice

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Jun 11, 2007, 10:18:54 AM6/11/07
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hmm, 9:15, then 10:15, now 11:15

anyone seeing a trend here?

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Mark Jacobs

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Jun 11, 2007, 10:23:26 AM6/11/07
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Robert Justice wrote:
> hmm, 9:15, then 10:15, now 11:15
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> anyone seeing a trend here?
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>
>
Is it time to hold a contest to pick the time and date that IBMLINK is
back? :-)

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Chase, John

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Jun 11, 2007, 10:23:58 AM6/11/07
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice
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> hmm, 9:15, then 10:15, now 11:15
>
> anyone seeing a trend here?

Second Tuesday of next week?

-jc-

Fletcher, Kevin

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Jun 11, 2007, 10:26:51 AM6/11/07
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Did they specify what day?

Thanks,

Fletch

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hmm, 9:15, then 10:15, now 11:15

anyone seeing a trend here?

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Robert Justice

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Jun 11, 2007, 10:28:04 AM6/11/07
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"Did they specify what day?".

lol, good point.

Mark Jacobs

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Jun 11, 2007, 10:37:48 AM6/11/07
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It looks like its back up.

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Mark Jacobs
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Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben;
she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her.
She's a father going down to a dull office job while cancer is
painfully eating away his insides, so as to bring home one more pay
check for the kids. She's a twelve-year-old girl trying to mother her
baby brothers and sisters because Mama had to go to Heaven. She's a
switchboard operator sticking to her job while smoke is choking her
and the fire is cutting off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes
who couldn't quite cut it but never quit.*

Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land

*Referring to the Auguste Rodin sculpture, Caryatid Who Has Fallen under Her Stone

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Robert Justice

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Jun 11, 2007, 10:47:29 AM6/11/07
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"It looks like its back up".

next question is for how long. We'll see what the response to my "feedback"
record is this time. .

Chase, John

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Jun 11, 2007, 2:10:21 PM6/11/07
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Justice
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> "It looks like its back up".

FSVO "up". I signed on, checked my AST apar and saw that it had closed
and a PTF was available, ordered the PTF for Internet delivery,
navigated to SRD and saw the order status as "submitted", went to a
couple of meetings, went to lunch, came back from lunch, and now, four
hours later, my PTF order status is still "submitted" (not even
"received", let alone "shipped"). And that was with priority
"emergency".

-jc-

Robert Justice

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Jun 11, 2007, 2:20:33 PM6/11/07
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>FSVO "up". I signed on, checked my AST apar and saw that it had closed
>and a PTF was available, ordered the PTF for Internet delivery,
>navigated to SRD and saw the order status as "submitted", went to a
>couple of meetings, went to lunch, came back from lunch, and now, four
>hours later, my PTF order status is still "submitted" (not even
>"received", let alone "shipped"). And that was with priority
>"emergency".


That one might possibly be one of the "known" ibmlink issues, i.e.,
ID #70092

Abstract: Order updates fail on occasion in SRD

Sometimes the status of an order in SRD may not change from "Submitted",
or "Received", to "Shipped".

An order status that does not change from "Submitted" or "Received" is
indicating a failure of the SRD order status update function. The ultimate
authority of an order's status is the Corrective Service Status public website:

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/ssos/order_status?
cmd=getIndexPage

Workaround: If an order status does not change to "Shipped" in a reasonable
amount of time, one should check the Corrective Service Status website to
verify the order status.

Barkow, Eileen

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Jun 11, 2007, 3:16:08 PM6/11/07
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Many times the order status does not change right away but the order is
still available. Do not wait for the status to change before going to
the ftp site to download it if you know the current password and url.
If you are not sure of the url, start with
ftp://ptf.boulder.ibm.com/password/userid/srdnnnnn/ (where nnnn is the
order number) and follow the links. Keep refreshing until the
cnnnnnnnnn directory and its subdirectorys appear.

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Chase, John

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Jun 11, 2007, 3:23:17 PM6/11/07
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen
>
> Many times the order status does not change right away but
> the order is still available. Do not wait for the status to
> change before going to the ftp site to download it if you
> know the current password and url.
> If you are not sure of the url, start with
> ftp://ptf.boulder.ibm.com/password/userid/srdnnnnn/ (where
> nnnn is the order number) and follow the links. Keep
> refreshing until the cnnnnnnnnn directory and its
> subdirectorys appear.

Finally got the auto-notification at 1:13 PM (CDT), and downloaded it.

-jc-

Ted MacNEIL

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Jun 11, 2007, 3:24:45 PM6/11/07
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>Many times the order status does not change right away but the order is still available.

That is NOT how the product(s) should work!

You should not have to memorise URLs, nor should you have to keep "refresh"ing.

If we accept that, there is NO way IBM will fix things!

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Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Barkow, Eileen

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Jun 11, 2007, 3:36:09 PM6/11/07
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Nothing in this field ever works 100%, least of all IBMLINK, so it is
better and faster to try to work around it than wait forever for a
status msg to change.

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Ted MacNEIL

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Jun 11, 2007, 3:44:08 PM6/11/07
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>Nothing in this field ever works 100%, least of all IBMLINK, so it is better and faster to try to work around it than wait forever for a status msg to change.


Considering the kind of money we pay for it, the other things we have to do, and the fact that the 3270-based one works, and this doesn't, er! NO!

Not as a habit.

Efinn...@ibm-main.lst

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Jun 11, 2007, 4:41:23 PM6/11/07
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In a message dated 6/11/2007 2:24:06 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
jch...@USSCO.COM writes:

Finally got the auto-notification at 1:13 PM (CDT), and downloaded it.


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After a 60 hr outage there's probably a queue the size of political egos.

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