Re:British Airways: All flights cancelled amid IT crash
by tyingq on Saturday May 27, 2017 @11:52AM
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For what it's worth, it's not generally the mainframes that cause the outages. It's the distributed ecosystem where you need a bunch of disparate systems from different vendors around the mainframe, all coordinating, to be able to fly planes, sell tickets, process boarding passes, etc.
There were fewer global outages when all of the functionality was on the TPF mainframes with dumb green screen clients.
There were fewer global outages when all of the functionality was on the TPF mainframes with dumb green screen clients.