We process for two hospital systems. One on eastern time and one on
central time. The different departments in hospitals use the computer
at different times, with E/R having priority over any changes that we
wish to perform. What we have found is that a midweek IPL in the
evening usually works best for us. We have a standing schedule to IPL
once a month. The last IPL was in February. For one reason or another,
the IPL has been bypassed for four months. The only fallout from this
has been that our system changes are accumulating and we ran into
fragmented storage in the initiators(second time in two years). We
corrected the latter with new Control-O rules to cycle the inits
monthly. The system changes simply have to slide from month to month
until we can actually implement them with an IPL.
Eric Bielefeld wrote:
We IPL weekly. We wouldn't have to, but I still think that if your
workload allows it, weekly or monthly IPLs are a good thing. Any minor
parmlib changes, software changes, etc. are easier to fix if done in small
doses instead of accumulating for 6 months or whatever. Also, the
operators don't forget how, as many have mentioned.
Eric Bielefeld
P&H Mining Equipment
414-671-7849
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