Re: Question on Reorganizing IBM Files...

Heyyyy,

I never THOUGHT of that Rob ! Have never done a RCLSTG on this system (it's a 
little one) but had
done it on MUCH lager systems at my old job (and DREADED it every time we had 
to do it <BG>) !

Thanks for that information !

Chuck

Rob Berendt wrote:

> Not a direct answer to your question but does the following fix it:
> RCLSTG SELECT(*DBXREF)
>
> On a system in which the entire RCLSTG takes 15 hours, this subset takes 
>under 1/2 of an hour.
>
> clewis@iquest.net on 07/10/2000 11:19:59 AM
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> Subject:        Question on Reorganizing IBM Files...
>
> Hi Folks !
>
> Doing "disk cleaning" and I have some programs that rat out files with
> deleted records. Along with our 3rd party software apps files I also
> have IBM files that show up on my "Files with Deleted Records in order
> of "biggest offenders" report:
> The top ones are:
>
> Cross Reference Physical Files:
>
> QSYS/QADBIFLD has 273,940 active records and 1,410,315 deleted records
> !!
> QSYS/QADBKFLD has 18,824 active records and 42,115 deleted records.
>
> and then a BUNCH of other Cross Ref files that are not NEAR as
> "bloated"...
>
> OS/400 Document Library File
> QUSRSYS/QAOSSS14 has 2,919 active records and 19,625 deleted records.
>
> My question is can these things be reorged ? I know they are CONSTANTLY
> in use so it would have to be in restricted state. Or better YET, why
> doesn't IBM use the "Reuse deleted records" parameter ??? !!!
>
> Thanks !
>
> Chuck
>
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