Re: Remote IPL form telnet

Wayne McAlpine wrote:

I've found it to be good practice to do a PWRDWNSYS RESTART(*YES) instead of a complete powerdown, particularly if your disk drives are getting on in years.

I'm almost the exact opposite for my system at home. I not only power down fully once a week, I also let it sit long enough for general cooling of components before having it start back up. During the power cycle has been when I've seen most related problems. (Yes, I realize that this can accumulate stress in some of the hardware; but I don't expect it to last forever anyway.)

If it's gonna fail, I want it to fail on _my_ schedule as much as possible.

But that's my system at home. Not always so easy to do with employers' systems.

Tom Liotta

Al Mac Wheel wrote:

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.

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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.