Can task center be used to schedule a stop and start of an instance, or will stopping the instance also stop the scheduler that task center uses?

We are running DB2 9.7 on a windows platform with just one instance. Thanks.

The task center reads database tables to determine what to do, so if the instance is stopped, then it cannot work. You need something outside the database (like cron in Linux/Unix). Why do you want to schedule recycling the instance?

Andy