RE: Temporary Exit from IPL to Delete Files - Possible?

Paul,

I've been there at that release and I ended up installing some additional
drives to complete an IPL.

If you do a manual IPL, can you get to DST?  Or does it fail before that
point?  If there is anything you can do, it would be within DST (either
booting from the hard drives or from media).  You might, for instance,
remove disk protection (RAID or mirroring), IPL, delete stuff, then go
back to DST and turn protection back on.  I've never tried that, but if
your other option is to reload from a system save, it might be worth a
shot.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> Dear List,
> 
> For the last couple of weeks, I have been trying a number of different
> IPL
> options on an AS/400 9402 model F04 (one of our old development
> machines) to
> try and find a method to exit from the IPL, to delete some history
> files,
> before continuing with the IPL. The reason is that I have exhausted my
> available disk space to the point where an IPL cannot be successfully
> completed due to lack of storage.
> 
> Does anyone know if OS/400 V3R2 offers such a function?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> /Paul