>Just curious about how often folks here IPL their systems as a scheduled event >, once a month, once a quarter, once a year? >and same question for POR's. >I understand there are times when you HAVE to have unscheduled or hot fix >IPL's, I'm just asking in general terms.
We have 2 maintenance periods per year in Prod. As part of that we: - have IBM install all MCL's - IBM & ISV software maintenance - IODF changes - POR - IPL the updates in While we could do MCL's more often, but there are still some that seem to require cycling OSA or Crypto adapters to actually activate the code onto those cards. We find just PORIng after the MCL's just makes for a cleaner update, and general system cleanup. For us, a 2 times per year cycle has also created a level of stability in the environment due to limiting how often changes get made. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
