RE: Remote IPL form telnet

Saving a couple of bucks on electricity is a pittance to what you would
spend if you had a serious case of "stiction" as a result of the drives
cooling off. On the other hand, it might get you that new machine you want.

RISC based machines don't need to be re-booted like the older boxes did.

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Al Mac Wheel
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 2:05 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Remote IPL form telnet

Our system is setup to power down Saturday just after midnite, and power up
again Sunday after dawn, except I disable that on end-month fiscal
weekend. I picked that time after analysing when weekend users typically
needed on the system. It saves a little electricity $ also.

It is good for the hardware to get an occasional re-boot.
It does not need it nearly as often as Windows, every few months is good
enough, but we can forget, so having a schedule in GO POWER means it does
not matter if we forget.

With WRKSYSVAL you can manage what gets recovered in an IPL.
& then forget about that also.

Don Cavaiani wrote:

I guess I was brainwashing myself as I reboot PCs around here regularly.
I was a bit paranoid!! My bad.

-----Original Message-----
From: sjl

Don wrote:
Actually, I don't know if I need to IPL? I installed a couple of IBM
program product options - one shows *compatible the other *installed,
and there was no mention of needing to IPL that I noticed.


Don -
In the absence of specific instructions to IPL, there is no need.
After all, this is *NOT* Windows!

;-P

The only times I have ever had to IPL my machine(s) was either because
of a system failure or a PTF that required an IPL...

- sjl