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I worked on the Y2K problem myself. Officially students of my school where not allowed to do so but I got an exception to do so. I worked at AXA (a large insure
by ivolimmen 2y ago
I worked on the Y2K problem myself. Officially students of my school where not allowed to do so but I got an exception to do so. I worked at AXA (a large insurer) and it was an trainee-ship. I worked on the the EURO and Y2K problem. For this insurer it was massive. They had somewhere near 250 systems that where inter connected and each had issues. They had 22 systems just to handle intermediates because of mergers. I remember helping a tester to time travel a database on OS360. I wrote a script in REXX to he could time travel how he would like to. He started the script during the day without using nice. The mainframe was so busy that nobody could work on the terminals. We got calls from every office in the Netherlands. Fun times.
- ivolimmen 2y agoBTW: I also remember the passing of the year on the news. The news at one at night clearly stated "and everything works fine again at the nuclear power plant.". I will never forget that.
- lacoolj 2y agoI got to "an trainee-ship" and the grammar wouldn't allow me to continue reading Like, I get it - "an internship" into "a trainee-ship" sounds weird and like it was an actual thing, so "an trainee-ship" to bridge the gap. But my OCD be burnin ya dig
- ivolimmen 2y agoPardon me for my bad English, and I will pardon your bad Dutch when you try to discuss something with me in my native tongue. If you do not converse in Dutch I will also be happy to do so in German.
- 486sx33 2y agoMy dad sold a ton of AXA coverage. Think there’s still a mug somewhere. They had great Parties!