Re: System IPL

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Leong,

In a message dated 97-07-24 10:24:50 EDT, you write:

> 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.

This should not be as necessary on a RISC box as it was on the CISC; however,
if you can afford the down time it would be nice to do!  We upgraded from a
320 to a 530 eight weeks ago, and are performing our first IPL this weekend.
 Look at your temporary address percentage through WRKSYSSTS to determine if
your IPL is really necessary.

>  By the way, if we compare  with IBM mainframe system does anyone know
>  the processing power of this machine (AS/400 model 530) is close to what
>  range of mainframe model?

You're trying to compare apples and oranges.  The AS/400 is excellent in
performing real-time applications, and the RISC is much better at performing
batch processes.  The mainframe is still better at manipulating terabytes of
information in a batch mode...

HTH,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

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