Re: Question - Your IPL Frequency

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I don't think we'll ever do that.  We do a lot of nightly batch jobs, 
backups etc.  In addition to off shift work.  I really didn't think I'd 
find anyone who was.  Rather surprised.

Jim,
If you have maintenance, and are RAID protected, then convince your boss 
that a stress test on the disks shouldn't have more than one fail at a 
time.  Better to find out at IPL time, after your nightly backup, then 
during prime shift.

Oh, by the way; test service agent after every OS VRM upgrade.  Sometimes 
a release upgrade hoses it up and it no longer calls IBM.  Losing one disk 
drive and having the machine call IBM and they replace it and your users 
never notice is no big deal - been there done that.  However, screwing up 
service agent and not having it call IBM and you not finding out until the 
second drive in the raid set fails and the whole system goes casters up is 
not a good idea.

Rob Berendt