Stopping/Starting SAP Systems on System i

[Former Member]

Hello,

Currently we are stopping/starting our SAP systems that run on our i5/OS weekly. I'm just curious if anyone else has any recommendations of if this is a good practice or even necessary. This was started about 5 years ago with our R/3 system just to clear out buffers and logs. Since then we have implemented a wide variety of other SAP systems, CRM, Solution Manager, XI/PI, NW04 system, etc...

I'm just wondering if stopping/starting our production systems on a weekly basis is a good practice or is it not necessary.

Thanks,

Dale Dingmann

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Dale,

most customers are doing like you, but:

We do have several customers, that leave it up for months and wit new products like portal or PI it should stay up - and then you should change R3 as well ....

Regards

Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut international ag

http://www.consolut.de - http://www.4soi.de - http://www.easymarketplace.de

[markus_doehr2]

If you "clear buffers" through reboot the system will be slower (in the beginning) because the buffers are empty and everything need to be re-read from the database.

Markus