RBS 'Computer Glitch'

[barrydidit]

Back in the news:

RBS payment failure could last days - BBC News

[TestMangler]

Unless their systems are the biggest bag of tulipe then it really shouldn't be possible to lose an entire days transactions. Not a trivial task but it would be relatively straightforward to identify what is missing and to recreate and apply the missing transactions.

That does of course use the major assumption that the people supporting the systems really know how it works.
Oh, and I hope that they took a copy of all the mainframe GDGs before the relevant ones cycled off and were lost to posterity.

I have this vision of all the bobs frantically looking through their 'knowledge transfer' documents hoping that the section that details what to do in a complete cock-up situation is actually in there and has just been missed out of the TOC.

Nail on the head just there. They make Lloyds look technically competent and very change capable.

[PurpleGorilla]

bankers

[alreadypacked]

last time this happened was around the same time "19 June 2012"

Guessing the person who knows how it works is on holiday again.

[lexington_spurs]

last time this happened was around the same time "19 June 2012"

Guessing the person who knows how it works is on holiday again.

Probably more likely ... this time of year is about a week after they last rotated the offshore resources, the latest crop of 9 year olds having newly 'graduated' from their 'seats of learning'.

[BrilloPad]

last time this happened was around the same time "19 June 2012"

Guessing the person who knows how it works is on holiday again.

They were offshored.

HTH

[DaveB]

It was my leaving present

HTH

FTFY.

[tractor]

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But bobs live in a world where competition for jobs is high and they get fired for farting. What would you do in that culture??

If banks and governments did not apply the 'we need more slaves to build these pyramids and I'm not gonna pay anything' philosophy, they would not even be a cog in the machine and therefore they would not even have the dilemma.

[tractor]

Probably more likely ... this time of year is about a week after they last rotated the offshore resources, the latest crop of 9 year olds having newly 'graduated' from their 'seats of learning'.

I guess these would be the 'localised' MS courses that Europeans are forbidden from studying?