Re: 170 - Power it off or keep it powered on?

Pete Massiello wrote:

I wasn't arguing about the grace period, I was agreeing on that, and that is
why I thought people were mixing up grace period for how long a machine
could be off for.

So, now you evoked my curiosity. I went into the computer room and
connected a 170 to power and just powered it up. This AS/400 (yes, it is an
AS/400) with V5R2 on it that hadn't been on (unplugged since we turned it
off) since Dec 06, 2006. So, that would be 13 months it was powered off and
Un-Plugged. This machine hasn't been on since 2006, I went and looked up in
the history log. It came up fine, didn't ask for a password, didn't ask for
anything. I had to connect a console (Twinax) to it, but its up and
running, and those noisy old disks are just chattering about.

Pete Massiello

Interesting. Maybe this powered off over 30-60 day stuff is just a bit of urban legend. You might want to check qsysopr msgq for any warning messages while you have the system up.

It's possible that some systems are losing their passwords due to bad cache batteries and it just looks like there is a time period to expiration.

Keith