Posted on 08/08/2016 2:33:38 AM PDT by rickmichaels
TPF is fast!
Matter of fact, my employer had to do certain maintenance tasks manually as some maintenance scripts were too slow for the TPF operating system. Slow device response times on the mainframe’s channels can snowball and bring the system to its knees.
Oof. Wife is supposed to fly to Boston today. We will see how that goes.
This is all over the news on a Bing search for Delta outage.
If the problems turns out to be inside of TPF, I doubt it was a hacker. TPF is so old and byzantine and its hardware req is so exotic (it needs an IBM ESA mainframe just to IPL it) that I can’t see it happening.
I think it is more likely that a software update went bad, or some tech’s operational error - for example confusing ‘backup’ for ‘restore’ and wiping out all transactions for the past 24 hrs instead of merely backing them up.
However, it still shouldn’t have hit all their op centers simulataneously, no matter how badly someone fat-fingered the console at any one site.
“Delta said the problem is a power outage at its Atlanta hub, starting at about 2:30 a.m. ET.”
Something broke-down big time. Still odd that the MSM news was 4 hours late picking it up, except for the Russian News.
Hummmmm Russia news had it first!
“I think it is more likely that a software update went bad, or some tech’s operational error - for example confusing ‘backup’ for ‘restore’ and wiping out all transactions for the past 24 hrs instead of merely backing them up.”
A screwed up maintenance procedure makes sense as the timing coincides with being after departure in CONUS of the last flight of the day.
My thought too. A hacker hit at peak hours for max chaos.
s/hit/would have hit/
A hack is way down on my suspect list as are the mainframes. I can’t imagine Delta not running TPF in a parallel sysplex environment - meaning the applications & OS run across multiple mainframes simultaneously.
I’m leaning towards a network issue. Going to make some calls to a couple buds back at the shop to see what they know. You know there must be at least two hundred people on the main outage bridge line giving minute by minute updates. Glad I’m not one of them.....!!!! Been on way too many of those 24+ hour outage conference calls.
Delta.com is back up. Some flights are now departing. Looks like the system is getting back on its feet?
The Delta Air Lines worldwide shutdown was apparently due to a power outage in their main Atlanta data center.
http://news.delta.com/840-am-et-update-power-outage-affecting-flights-worldwide-ground-stop-lifted
I know that Delta used to have a backup data center in Eagan, MN (formerly Northwest) but it disappeared from DAL’s Sec 10K filings after 2013.
If Delta is now running one data center without a backup site they were just asking for trouble.
That is what I am traveling for. Just leave early to get there.
Seems pretty odd since Southwest just experienced the same thing recently.
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