RE: PCP01 File purging...

Jeff,
something must be purging flp062 my file has 1000k deleted records with only
300k active records.  Obviously, our reorg has not affected this file yet.

Charles.

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> From: owner-jbausers-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-jbausers-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of
> Jeff_Klipa/Harvard@harvardind.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 1:31 PM
> To: JBAUSERS-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: PCP01 File purging...
>
>
> I love the response this PCP01 purge program is getting...  I
> can't wait to
> hear Lee's response...  Hey Bruce, here is a topic for the developers to
> think about...  Purging and archiving...  Could really use some sprucing
> up...
>
> Another file of ours that is the largest file on our system with
> a whopping
> 40 Million records is FLP062...!!!  There's a file I'd like to purge...  I
> need to know more about it though...  Is there already a purge routine for
> this one and when is it safe to purge it...?  Anyone...?
>
> In the meantime I've set about the task of developing our own
> program to do
> the PCP01 purge...
>
> I hate to reinvent the wheel as it were, but we wanted to include more of
> the downstream files that are populated when the transaction
> manager job in
> MJ_CONTROL reads these PCP01 records and scatters them to the
> four winds...
>
> Here is a list of the files we feel need to be included in this purge
> scenario...  We are going to use a combination of dates/periods/and
> transaction numbers to achieve this purging...  We feel this is an
> effective and thorough approach...
>
> We plan to run this job on the last day of each month and calculate the
> dates and periods so that the 13th month historical data is deleted...  We
> have another automatic file reorg job that runs in the middle of
> each month
> to reclaim the disk space left by the deleted records...
>
> The list of files that we are planning to include in the purge program:
>
> PCP01,PCP02,PCP03,PCP04,PCP06,PCP52,PCP53,PCP56,PCP58,PCP59,PCP62,
> PCP65,PCP
> 93,FIP45.
>
> I'll let you know how it works...  In the meantime if you have some cool
> utilities of your own you'd like to share maybe we can work out a trade of
> some kind...?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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