Hi Bill
Im afraid that I cannot supply you with an answer to your question
However, here are a few things to think about as far as REORGS and reclaiming space
We have FINALLY been given the go ahead to purge data - starting with BEFORE 1995
1. Don't forget the ifs
Its amazing how much data is down there from WAAAAAAAAAAY back when
2. You don't say what release you are on - but I am assuming somewhat current
Run this SQL to collect data as to how many deleted records there are in what file
Select a.Table_schema, a.Table_name, a.Table_partition,
a.Number_rows,
a.Number_Deleted_ROWS, a.DATA_SIZE,
a.Variable_length_size, a.Number_Distinct_Indexes
FROM QSYS2.SYSPARTITIONSTAT a
It could take a while
From the results =- you can determine which files have the most number of deleted records
3. As far as the reorgs go - if you have journals on the files you can cancel the reorgs with no problems
If there are no journals on the files - cancel on a reorg will be MUCH more difficult and can produce problems
Prompt the command RGZPFM - you will see the parameter ALWCANCEL
Alan Shore
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] How much space will a reorg add?
Hello all,
I'm working on doing a reorg of the files from our ERP package. It's been a very long time since a reorg was done on these files. What we've done is copy the data library in question over to our test system and we're going to do a test run there and see how long it takes. One problem.....our test system has about half the storage that our production one does and copying this library over has put us at 97% of disk space usage on our test system. Our ERP package does allow for us to reorg the files individually. We hope to get about 90GB back on a system that has 660GB and is 97% full. We have two schools of thought going on. Our thought in-house is that we can individually reorg some of the smaller files, and that should buy us enough space to be able to reorg the bigger ones. Our vendor that hosts our system for us is telling us to clear space ahead of time because of the amount of space that the reorg will add.
Anyone have any experience with how much space a reorg will typically add? I know that being at 97% is crazy. I'm just trying to figure out if we have enough space to slowly but surely reduce it down by reorg-ing individual files or if we should really look at clearing other space first. As always, all your suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Bill
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