RE: IPL frequency (was Who has a big QTEMP?)

The discussion I refer to took place approximately 5 years ago at the Helms 
Group (an AS/400
teaching facility) where I was taking classes when I first started on the 
AS/400.

The discussion had come up about why do we IPL and how often should we do it?  
At that time
weekly was the suggested time frame (From IBM or Helms, not sure) and it was 
discussed that
we actually IPLed every day.  That's when the discussion moved to the fact that 
IPLing every
day was like turning a light bulb on and off.  If you leave a light bulb on, 
they'll last a very, very
long time.  It is the shock of turning them off and on that actually blow them 
out (I once saw a
TV news program about a light bulb that had lasted like 20+ years because they 
never, ever
turned it off).

Regards,

Jim Langston

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:36:08 -0400
From: Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com>
Subject: RE: IPL frequency (was Who has a big QTEMP?)

Jim Langston wrote:

>I know that it has always been
>suggested that you IPL once a week.

The System Operation guide suggests that you should IPL daily if your DASD
is at 95%, weekly is at 90% and as necessary below 90% used.  This is in the
section on "Cleanup activities you should do"  Is this the suggestion you
are referring to?

>Which we do.  Anything more than this
>and you are putting unneccessary
>strain on the AS/400 hardware.

I have never heard this before!  Where did you see/hear/read about this?

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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