RE: Shutting Down prior to moving iSeries

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>  10. Shutting Down prior to moving iSeries (Norbut, Jim)
>
>So that seems to me to say:
> 
>A) Do a full backup (potentially 2) and keep the backup(s) with me.
>B) Do the PWRDWNSYS command with no startup
>C) Label all the cables (where they go.....where they came from)
> 
>Does anybody have any other suggestions ?

Jim:

If you've absolutely positively decided IBM won't be doing it (and if it was my 
business system, I'd want them there)...

Moving these isn't that bad, certainly not like years ago. Standard decent care 
_should_ work fine. But in any 24/7 business scenario, there's one relatively 
minor thing I would want to do... After my saves and totally powering down, I'd 
power back up to restricted state after a five-minute wait without power.

If something's going to be out of whack just from power cycling, I'd want to 
know it separately from moving/handling problems.

Tom Liotta