Re: System IPL

["David Gibbs" <devdmg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 Jul 97 at 21:15, Leong Sing Loong wrote:

> Currently my company (bank) is having AS/400 model 530 running v3r6.
> Every week my system guy will perform system IPL on Sunday and which
> will require to stop  running the machine for about 1- 1.5 hours. My
> question is "is it necessary to perform IPL every week ?"  My DASD
> utilization is about 60% of 60GB storage and temp. address is about
> 0.126 and 2Gb of memory.

A weekly IPL isn't a bad idea at all.

When I was in a more operational role, I setup an automatic re-IPL of 
the system every sunday night around 3am.

It cleans up the system, clears out any 'stuck' jobs, etc.  

david
(at work)
--

David Gibbs
Sr. Software Engineer
Silvon Software
Westmont, IL
(630) 655-3313 x6479

Opinions expressed are strictly my own and do 
not necessarily reflect those of my employer

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    you take your eyes off of your goal.

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