[Info-vax] ASX ClickXT and VMS Epic Fail

[IanMiller]

On Feb 28, 4:13 pm, IanMiller <g... at uk2.net> wrote:
> On Feb 28, 3:19 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
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> > In article <6fb94d6f-c98a-4001-b456-61f322dbf... at y36g2000pra.googlegroups.com>, IanMiller <g... at uk2.net> writes:
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> > >On Feb 28, 11:32=A0am, "Richard Maher" <maher... at hotspamnotmail.com>
> > >wrote:
> > >> Can someone confirm/deny that VMS was at the very root of the debacle at =
> > >the
> > >> ASX this afternoon?
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> > >> Regards Richard Maher
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> > >You will have to give some details about what you are taking about.
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> > I believe this Ian:  http://preview.tinyurl.com/ASX-VMS
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> > All your spirit rack abuses, come to haunt you back by day.
> > All your Byzantine excuses, given time, given you away.
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> I see. The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) stopped trading
> earlier than normal on the 28th Feb due to "technical difficulties".
> The system was supplied by Nasdaq-OMX and according to this old
> brochurehttp://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/brochures/asx/runs on
> OpenVMS Alpha. So was the root cause of the outage due to OpenVMS - I
> expect it's a bit early to tell.

I did note the following comment which appears to suggest this is a
recently installed system so not the one mentioned in the old
brochure.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/brochures/asx/

"He said it was the first glitch since the ASX Trade system was
installed in November and that the ITS system that preceded it had
"100 per cent up-time".”