RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

[<lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought uptime was expressed in terms of "unplanned outages". Since
the monthly IPL can be scheduled and users notified in advance, you have
no unplanned downtime (for the IPL).

Uptime and availability are different requirements.

Loyd

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 14:35
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

> Even if your IPL process takes an hour, that's nearly 99.9% uptime.

Wow! The iSeries is capable of 99.86% uptime??? Impressive... <G>

-Walden