RE: Freeing Deleted Disk Space

Dale and Others,

I appreciate the additional comments. I am planning on starting tomorrow as
soon as possible after a scheduled power outage. At least that way it has a
day and a half to hopefully finish. Unfortunately I do not have the disk
space to copy it before doing the reorg, but should have fresh backups from
tonight's run. Lets hope I do not need them.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Thanks
Scotty

____________________________
Scotty Muir
Sr. Systems Programmer
Triangle Suspension Systems
DuBois, PA.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Dan Bale
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:54 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Freeing Deleted Disk Space



Oh my.  Depending on the size of the file, the system, and a few other minor
(?) factors, the reorg could take anywhere from a few seconds to several
days!  IIRC, there's no way to safely kill a reorg once it has started.
Yes, submit it to batch, but to be on the safe side, don't do it 20 minutes
before a "big" long-running process needs to use it.  Me, if this were the
first time and I needed to get a benchmark, I'd submit it at 5pm Friday, and
make sure that, if it ran all weekend, nothing else would get hung up by the
file being allocated *EXCL.  Make sure you set that job to log messages and
check the job log Monday morning.  If I had the disk space and was unsure
about the time it would take for the reorg to complete, I'd first CRTDUPOBJ
the physical and all its logicals to a temporary, one-time-use library, and
test the reorg on that.

My .02

Dan Bale
working from home today

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date:  Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:20:47 +0000

>
>Scotty,
>     RGZPFM  PFname   - but submit it to run in batch ! It might take an
>hour.
>Fiona
>
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