On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:59:02 -0400, Tim Hare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We bring down our DB2s weekly to put them into "maintenance mode" to run >an image copy. It's an old, old habit of our DBAs and its due to poor >application design. <snip> Something similar was does here in the past for the LPARs running SAP, but from what I remember the DB2 sysprog told me it had to do with there being sooooo many tables that quiescing them was an issue and it was jsut easier to bring them down. We still had enough extra RSVNONR ASIDs to last for the normal maintenance window IPLs (once a month) and for year end when we go for about 2 months without IPLs. I'm not sure when they stopped doing this, but by looking at currently used RSVNONR on our SAP LPARs, I can tell that they don't. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
