Re: AS400: RPG to monitor disk space

As big as a fan of RPG versus CL as I am, if what you have is working, why 
are you changing it?

I do have some concerns that should be addressed.  There may be growth in 
other areas other than the traditional DB2 area that DSPOBJD only covers. 
Look at our 840 (from RTVDSKINF and PRTDSKINF *SYS):
                                                % of         Size in 
Description                                     Disk     1,000,000 bytes
User libraries                                 44.02         1432686.36 
User directories                               27.81          905123.63 
Folders and documents                            .03            1094.78 
QSYS                                             .18            5872.73 
Other IBM libraries                              .71           23262.94 
Licensed Internal Code                           .20            6669.43 
Temporary space                                 1.06           34468.66 
Unused space                                   25.37          825617.63 
System internal objects                          .21            6945.79 
Objects not in a library                         .00                .22 
TOTAL                                          99.59         3241742.17 

Now, of the traditional 'User libraries', 1,170,160MB or 1.2TB is in the 
library PCBACKUP.  This too will be moved to 'User directories' when we 
get to the latest version of Tivoli Storage Manager.  So, our adjusted 
figures would be:
                                                % of         Size in 
Description                                     Disk     1,000,000 bytes
User libraries                                  8.10          262526.36 
User directories                               64.02         2075283.63 
Folders and documents                            .03            1094.78 
QSYS                                             .18            5872.73 
Other IBM libraries                              .71           23262.94 
Licensed Internal Code                           .20            6669.43 
Temporary space                                 1.06           34468.66 
Unused space                                   25.37          825617.63 
System internal objects                          .21            6945.79 
Objects not in a library                         .00                .22 
TOTAL                                          99.59         3241742.17 

So only paying attention to DSPOBJD stuff would be an insignificant 
portion of our disk.  Don't you think?

If you carefully read the help for RTVDSKINF you can see how it recommends 
doing the historical comparisons that you are currently doing with 
DSPOBJD.  And every bit of the detail that you are using with DSPOBJD to 
do your queries is in the file created by RTVDSKINF, plus a little 
additional information.

RTVDSKINF doesn't go quite into the detail of 'User directories' that it 
can with 'User libraries'.  For that you can use the V5R3 RTVDIRINF / 
PRTDIRINF combo.

If you still want to tackle this with RPG, and still want to cover only 
DSPOBJD stuff, then I suggest you look at the following:

For a retrieval of WRKSYSSTS:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/ic2924/info/apis/qwcrssts.htm

For something similar to DSPOBJD:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/ic2924/info/apis/quslobj.htm
or
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/ic2924/info/apis/qgyolobj.htm


Rob Berendt
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