Two or three times a year for software upgrades. Last week, though, we did it because the machine went into a disabled wait in the middle of the day. Lot of fun trying to explain that one to the CIO... (Before anyone asks, no, we did not do a stand alone dump - it was the middle of the day and our users needed the system back up)
Some previous threads on the subject of IPL frequencies: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0110&L=ibm-main&P=R18732&I=1 http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0408&L=ibm-main&D=0&I=1&m=222605&P=69918 http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0009&L=ibm-main&D=0&I=1&P=88012 Greg -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Hunkeler Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 7:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: IPL periodicity Out of curiosity, how often and for what reasons do you IPL your z/OS systems? Peter Hunkeler Senior IT Specialist, IBM zSeries Technical Sales Support, Switzerland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
