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Hi,
0 is actually a valid number of days, even if you are not stopping On/Off (to stop On/Off CoD, you enter 0 for both values). But if you are either starting a new request right after a previous request was stopped, or changing an existing request, 0 days means to just finish the current processor day. Let's say you started an On/Off request for 3 processors for 2 days at midnight. Let's say on the last day of the request, at noon, you wanted to increase the number of processors to 4 for the last 12 hours of the request. You would specify 4 processors and 0 days in this case. Now let's say that you stopped the request at noon on the last day. Then at 2:00 you decided you wanted to use 3 more processors again until midnight. You would specify 3 processors and 0 days in this case. Regardless of what values you type into those fields, there's always a confirmation panel displayed when you click OK, explaining what's going to happen. For example, if you have a running request and you leave 0's in both fields and click OK, you get a dialog to confirm what action needs to be taken. You can also refer to https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER9/p9ha2/p9ha2_onoffcodbillchange.htm for additional details. If 0 is not valid for a specific case, then appropriate error will be shown.
Hope this helps to address your question or concern. Based on the above, at this point of time, there is no planned change to the default value.
Thanks.