RE: Shutting Down prior to moving iSeries

And mabye the original poster (i.e. ME) doesn't :)

But I certainly have read all your "intersting" stories about
Our move...and apparently my boss and my boss's boss 
Are sleeping well at night with the plans in place regarding 
Our move.  Or so they say :)



Certainly a valid point though Charles :

The rooms are pretty much identical in temperature.
Both about the same sq. footage and the same air conditioning unit(s)
And the same temperature is going to be used for each.

We plan on shutting the iSeries down around noon
The movers aren't coming till mid-afternoon.

We will make sure all gets put back into place once
It makes its 30 some odd mile trek to downtown chicago from the suburbs.
And the plan is to leave it sit overnight in the newly climatized room
Before even breathing on the power button. 


 
  
 
 
 
 
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wilt, Charles
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 7:06 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Shutting Down prior to moving iSeries

Tom,

Not a bad idea.  But I think you'd want to leave it off longer than 5
minutes.

I would think that ideally, you'd want to leave it off and unplugged,
long enough for everything to come to room temperature.

I'd at least want to try leaving it off for a couple of hours.

Speaking of temperature, the original poster doesn't say where he is at.
But if there is a significant difference between room temperature and
outside temperature, then allowing the system to cool down to room
temperature before moving might be a good idea.  In the same vain, allow
the system to acclimate and come back up to room temperature before
turning it back on at the new location.

Then again, maybe the original poster has a climate controlled moving
van.



HTH,

Charles Wilt
--
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer Mitsubishi Electric Automotive
America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
  

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:34 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Shutting Down prior to moving iSeries
> 
> midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> >  10. Shutting Down prior to moving iSeries (Norbut, Jim)
> >
> >So that seems to me to say:
> > 
> >A) Do a full backup (potentially 2) and keep the backup(s) with me.
> >B) Do the PWRDWNSYS command with no startup
> >C) Label all the cables (where they go.....where they came from)
> > 
> >Does anybody have any other suggestions ?
> 
> Jim:
> 
> If you've absolutely positively decided IBM won't be doing it (and if 
> it was my business system, I'd want them there)...
> 
> Moving these isn't that bad, certainly not like years ago. 
> Standard decent care _should_ work fine. But in any 24/7 business 
> scenario, there's one relatively minor thing I would want to do... 
> After my saves and totally powering down, I'd power back up to 
> restricted state after a five-minute wait without power.
> 
> If something's going to be out of whack just from power cycling, I'd 
> want to know it separately from moving/handling problems.
> 
> Tom Liotta
> 
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