RE: Performance Issue

Shawn,

Depending upon the model 400 you have and what level of the OS, an IPL
is not really required on a regular basis. IBM used to say to IPL every
so often to do some cleanup, but the newer boxes and OS's do not require
mandatory IPLs. Some machines run 24X7X365 without a hitch. 

An IPL will do some additional cleanup, but normally in the course of
running your business the machine will be IPLd a few times a year.

With respect to reclaim storage, again that is not something that needs
to be run regularly. If you are running out of temporary space or if you
have some really bad system shut downs (Someone pulled the plug) you can
run this command. This command can take many many hours to run if it
hasn't been run that recently. Again, I don't normally recommend that
you run this regularly.

I think for us to help you more, we need to understand more about what
your severe performance issues are. 

What size box do you have?
How much main storage (memory) do you have?
How many disk drives (DASD) do you have?
What level of the OS are you on?
How many users are actively running on this machine?
What level of MAPICS are you running?
Where are you seeing the performance issues? Green screen/Browser/etc.



Michael Franchino
Custom Systems Corporation
334 Sparta Ave
Sparta, NJ 07871
 
973-726-0202 X214
973-726-4552 Fax
http://eax.cussys.com

-----Original Message-----
From: mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:mapics-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shawn Thobe
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 3:02 PM
To: MAPICS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Performance Issue

We are experiencing seveier performance issues with our system some for
obvious reasons (size of box).  I'm new to the 400 so no laughing, I
have never done and IPL on this server.  I was told by a tech at MAPICS
to do a monthly IPL  and do a recapture of space.  

 

Is this standard practice?  Will it improve performance?  We are looking
at cleaning up some files that have grown very large.  I'm assuming we
would do the recapture after cleaning these up.  Thanks for any
assistance.

 

Shawn Thobe

Supervisor - Information Systems

Fort Recovery Industries Inc.

419-375-4121

 

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