RE: Reuse Deleted Records Option

Luckily we have downtime available to re-org all files on a Sunday.  To do
this we use a tool from OS Solutions called OS Director. This lets you
specify by library what to re-organise, whether to use a particular key, and
to re-organise on a % of deleted space.

As well as letting you schedule re-orgs, you can clean up spool files,
journals, IBM logs etc.  You can also use it to log library/file sizes for
capacity planning, and it even has it's own scheduler, plus a lot more
besides!  For its ease of use, and its "set-up and forget" operation, i'd
certainly recommend taking a look. (I have no contact with this company,
apart from being a user of their products)

http://www.os-solutions.com/


JBA don't recommend re-using deleted records, but so long as you don't have
any mods/other software that uses sequential processing, you should be ok.
Should.

Regards,

Stuart


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Thomas [SMTP:DThomas@lpw-mdi.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 2:05 PM
> To:   'JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Reuse Deleted Records Option
> 
> Any opinions of use of this option?  Obviously many of the JBA files need
> to
> be  reorganized regularly.  We've turned this option on for a few lock
> files
> without consequence and we're considering turning it on for all files.  I
> believe that this can't be used with journaling, but we don't do that.
> Theoretically, this would have a small negative impact on performance, but
> we never seem to get around to reorganizing files.
> On the other side, have some of you effectively automated reorganizing all
> JBA files.  If so, did you use some tool or utility to accomplish this?
> 
> Dan Thomas
> Sr. VP Information Systems
> Medical Distribution, Inc.
> 4500 Progress Blvd
> Louisville, KY  40218-5058
> Phone (502) 454-9013 ext 120
> email  DThomas@lpw-mdi.com
> 
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