Still shouldn't be an RFC type of change. Generally in such cases,there's a
defined procedure and set of conditions (as Jeff pointedout) for those
procedures to be executed. In a past life, I had todeal with RFC (and the
company called them RFCs -- management didn'tseem to have a clue that they were
re-using an acronym poorly) and forsomething like this I would put in a change
for adding a new procedurefor replacing dead tapes and a new cron job to alert
operations whenthat procedure needs to be executed. Once the procedure was
definedand the alert method was in place, I'd never again have to think
aboutthis task and the operators would take care of it for me.
-Charlie
On 10/31/05, Andrew Stueve <andrew.stueve AT neovera DOT com> wrote:> Actually,
I can see a reason for this in the banking industry. Just> because a tape is
expired doesn't mean there is no data on the tape.> There could be a disposal
issue that has to be addressed.>> -Andrew>> Jeff Lightner wrote:>> > At 3
different employers we did change control but I NEVER had to do a> > change
control for tape management. Change Control is typically aimed> > at making
sure you don't take down live Production.> >> > I did work at one
pharmaceutical which required FDA "Validation" which> > meant ALL processes and
procedures had to be documented. In that case> > you don't have to write a
change control unless the document you wrote> > requires it. Most documents
simply indicated under what conditions the> > procedure would be executed
(typically for something like this it> > would just be a service ticket rather
than a change control [we didn't> > call them RFCs]). Unless you're under some
extreme federal regulation> > like pharmaceuticals were I wouldn't think you'd
even be required to> > document it let alone do an RFC.> >> >
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