RE: IPL

I can think of one reason: regaining storage.

Two examples of our system:
IPL after more than 5 months we regained about 9% DASD (from ±76% to
±67%)
IPL after 4 months we regained about 5% DASD from ±68% to ±63%).

It all depends of the size of DASD and workload, of course.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 17-10-05 at 11:13 Grizzly M wrote:

>Can you see any reason why it would be useful to PWRDWNSYS once a week?
>The person who worked here before me scheduled the system to power down
>and IPL once a week. To me it seems pointless and it causes problems
>every Monday morning with device communications and listener jobs. I'm
>going to suggest we don't power down anymore unless there is a real
>benefit of doing it once a week.