Re: Oh where has my disk space gone?

several things come to my mind whenever confronted with this situation....

-- what version are you running? V5 can have collections (the new peformance
stuff, but back to V4R3 or 2) that are humongous.... need to look in ops
nav.

-- are you sharing drives through netserver to pcs? some uses can fill 50 GB
of dasd all by themselves and do it suprisingly quickly... that's on the ifs
and again the disktasks or ops nav can help.

-- journaling environment? Mapics may not be a good place for it, but that
doesn't always stop someone... I have done it myself, but journal receivers
can get out of hand, especially with an errant program.

-- processing mail? On the summary report from disktasks menu, there is a
section on distributions and one for mail... check these. A mail flood can
fill up dasd fast too.

-- are you using BRMS? If you are, wait until you see how much space this
monster takes up.... ;-) Run the maintenance in BRMS over a weekend. It's a
biggie.


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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"I want to be different, just like everybody else!"
  - Ceili Rain

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Snyder" <rsnyder@atlasdie.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:38 AM
Subject: RE: Oh where has my disk space gone?


> Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. I've set RTVDSKINF to
> run tonight at 8pm. I've never run it before so I won't have
> anything to compare it to, but maybe something will stick out.
>
> We only save 4 days of performance data, which when I deleted
> 3 days worth it got me .1% of space back.
>
> We do run cleanup and keep the following:
>
> Number of days to keep:
>   User messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   15            1-366,
> *KEEP
>   System and workstation messages . . . . . . . .   15            1-366,
> *KEEP
>   Job logs and other system output  . . . . . . .   30            1-366,
> *KEEP
>   System journals and system logs . . . . . . . .   30            1-366,
> *KEEP
>   OfficeVision for AS/400 calendar items  . . . .   0             1-366,
> *KEEP
>        (we don't use office vision)
>
> Are we saving too much? What do you suggest for these options?
>
> We also do a monthly IPL. In fact we just did one this Saturday.
> I've never run RCLRSC or RCLSTG for that matter. We've had our
> AS/400 (iSeries) since June 1999, and this is our first one.
> We only use Mapics for our carbon paper business. Our steel rule
> die business still runs our home-grown system on our VAX. Our
> computer room did not implode when we put an AS/400 next to our
> VAX!! I'm planning on doing a RCLSTG on some weekend in December.
> Would it be better to do RCLRSC or RCLSTG? Or maybe both?
>
> So needless to say I was kind of thrown on the thing without any
> training (except in mapics) and everything I've learned over the
> past 2 1/2 years has been out of necessity or from reading
> the messages posted here. I did manage to get copies of "Control
> Language Programming for the AS/400" and "Mastering the AS/400",
> both which has been very helpful although I haven't had the time
> to read through either of them. I've just picked out what I've
> needed at the time I needed it. One of these days I'm going to
> see if one of our local colleges has classes that I can take
> after hours...
>
> I'll stop rambling now & thanks again for all the help!
>
> Rebecca Snyder
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rebecca Snyder [SMTP:rsnyder@atlasdie.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:16 PM
> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: Oh where has my disk space gone?
> >
> > In the past 2 months my disk space has gone from
> > 45% used to 75% used... and I've got 50G of space!
> >
> > How can I tell what's using up my disk space? Because
> > we couldn't possibly be selling that much carbon paper!
> >
> >
> > Rebecca Snyder
> > Atlas Companies, Inc
> > 219-295-0050 ext 242
> > mailto:rsnyder@atlasdie.com
> >
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