RE: Performance Issue

The iSeries has built-in functions to allow you to schedule power ups/downs.  
Enter GO POWER on a command line and the Schedule Power Up/Down menu is 
displayed.

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> We use a job schedule entry with the PWRDWNSYS command. It runs every Sunday 
> at 
> 4am. The command we use is: 
> PWRDWNSYS OPTION(*IMMED) RESTART(*YES *FULL) 
> 
> You can create the job schedule by entering the command WRKJOBSCDE and 
> pressing 
> enter. Press F6 to give it a name and establish the time and day to run. 
> Where 
> it says "command to run" enter PWRDWNSYS and press F4 to be prompted for the 
> various options. Enter the frequency as *WEEKLY, the date as *NONE, the day 
> as 
> *SUN, or whatever day you want, the time as 040000, or whatever time you want 
> it 
> to run. You can press F10 to additional parameters or press enter to take the 
> defaults. 
> 
> We use job schedule entries for a lot of our recurring functions, using 
> commands, programs or CL programs in the "Command to run" area. 
> 
> David 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Shawn Thobe [mailto:ShawnT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 2:02 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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