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To: E_K_S who wrote (15751)	4/26/1999 3:43:00 PM
From: JavaGuy	of 64865

In the past, before SCH had online access it experienced frequent downtime and the brokers had to go to a backup system that left them "blind" to the customer account. SCH still operates on spagettied-out legacy IBM mainframe systems. The brokers actually enter orders on 3270 sessions today. I imagine that the online stuff integrates with the current system, so if the IBM system goes down as it did in the past, so will the online portion. Ripping out the IBM stuff is nearly impossible, they built everything around it. Now, if we are just talking about web access, not fetching any account information (stored in IBM's), then it may be a hardware or software problem in a Sun. Hardware is doubtful. I believe they have multiple E10k's, probably in an HA config (or they should). Could be that some internet software is barfing. I worked there years ago and will make an inquiry to a network tech friend in SF about their issues. JavaGuy

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