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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

IPL (verb?)

English answer:

Initial program load

Added to glossary by jerrie
Dec 23, 2003 11:26
20 yrs ago
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English term

IPL (verb?)

English Tech/Engineering
still my text on mainframes

So it’s only naturally that the z990 now supports Fibre Channel Protocol attachment to SCSI devices in the Linux environment, as well as the ability to IPL Linux operating systems from SCSI disks. "

looks like a verb,
I found the following explanation of IPL as a noun in Internet:

"Initial Program Load. The first part of the process of loading an operating system into a machine. These days IPL is synonymous with IML to all but the ruggedly pedantic."

so does it mean "load the initial program (which I think is the operating system)" ...something like "booting"???

thanks!
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4 +8 Initial program load / boot
4 boot / booting
4 -1 begin to load the Linux operating systems from SCSI disks

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Initial program load / boot

IPL (initial program load) is a mainframe term for the loading of the operating system into the computer's main memory. A mainframe operating system (such as OS/390) contains many megabytes of code that is customized by each installation, requiring some time to load the code into the memory. On a personal computer, booting or re-booting (re-starting) is the equivalent to IPLing (the term is also used as a verb) .
In earlier operating systems, when you added devices to the hardware system, you had to stop the system, change the configuration file, and then "re-IPL," an activity that meant the system would be unavailable for some period of time. Today's systems provide dynamic reconfiguration so that the system can keep running.


Peer comment(s):
agree David Knowles : definitely a verb! It's an IBM mainframe "word" - ICL never used it.
11 mins
agree Graciela Carlyle
28 mins
agree Empty Whiskey Glass
30 mins
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agree Chris Rowson (X) : I´d say IPL is a noun, meaning the load of the initial program (that then loads the operating system), which then gets used as a verb, as in the context.
53 mins
agree nyamuk : noun or verb synonyms boot[strap], to boot[strap], boot[strapp]ing. Also initialization, to initialize. a more general term which can apply to starting an OS or another program.
1 hr
agree jccantrell : My guess, too, but have never heard it.
3 hrs
agree Alaa Zeineldine
4 hrs
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agree Rajan Chopra
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thanks a lot fo your explanation, thanks also to the others and to all the "Agrees""
3 mins

boot / booting

yes, you are right
see reference attached
Reference:

http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci211696,00.html

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begin to load the Linux operating systems from SCSI disks

Initial Program Load does not equal load the initial program, but rather begin to load whatever program is in question
Peer comment(s):
disagree nyamuk : IPL is synonomous wit bootstrapping, and to my knowledge only means loading an OS (not just Linux which is usually proceeded by BIOS, and a boot loader) and the program can be loaded from a variety of media, or across a network (not just from SCSI disks).
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