Re: System IPL -- MIDRANGE-L

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>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.

I ipl our machine every Monday at 04:30. I don't really need to, but it
keeps the system tidy.
I would suggest that you ipl at least once a month though, or if the temp
addresses start to rise too high.

Tim Shepherd 

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