Re: Perm. apply PTF's thoughts

Rob,

I do check for the savf's in the manner that you speak but my report 
(generated about 4 years ago) only includes files over a certain size. Who 
knows what I was thinking back then.  I think I was running into 
situations with developers saving production libraries for their own test 
purposes and on occasion that does chew up some space.   I'm going to have 
to do better because those PTF savf do take up some space.  Granted it's 
not a lot but hey 10's of or 100's of megs is just that.  I'm glad you 
mentioned because it reminded me to look at my report....

It probably isn't that significant but just because my office is a mess I 
really don't like having that kind of storage usage or loose ends floating 
around. 

Thanks for everyone's input - it's great to be able to bounce an idea....


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Good idea Pete, but what I was describing, (among other things) is when 
the boss sticks a ptf save file in his library and not QGPL.  I had 
forgotten about the save files in the product libraries (well, maybe I 
referred to them indirectly with 'ability to remove a ptf').

Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
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What you are describing is the save file.  Not the one in QGPL, but the 
one that exists in the product library.

    Pete

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Test.  I don't think that permanently applying a ptf removes the save 
>file.  What it does remove is the copy of the objects changed by the ptf 
>stored "somewhere".  Permanently applying removes the ability to remove a 


>ptf by removing this backup copy.  It also applies it to the 'A' side of 
>the machine.  Which, in all but the rarest of cases, is insignificant to 
>you and I.
>
>To remove the save file you're better off to do a 
>WRKOBJ OBJ(QGPL/QMF*) OBJTYPE(*FILE)
>WRKOBJ OBJ(QGPL/QSI*) OBJTYPE(*FILE)
>Actually I favor the huge
>DSPOBJD OBJ(*ALL/*ALL) OBJTYPE(*FILE) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) 
>OUTFILE(QTEMP/DSPOBJD)
>Followed by
> SELECT ODLBNM, ODOBNM, ODOBTP, ODOBAT, 
>        ODSIZU*ODBPUN AS Size,
>        ODOBTX
> FROM qtemp/dspobjd
> WHERE ODOBAT = 'SAVF'
> ORDER BY size desc
>Often when 'the other guy' downloads a ptf they may give it a non 
standard 
>name.  Or you may have a program product that uses QSF* or some other 
>naming convention.  And, you'll also find those save files from a year 
ago 
>when 'that one gal' saved an entire data library into a save file to 
>transfer to another system.
>
>Tech note:  Once you get a size of all 9's for ODOBSZ you'll never use it 


>again and rely upon ODSIZU*ODBPUN as per the text on ODOBSZ says to.
>
>Rob Berendt
> 
>


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