RE: Detecting changing objects...

> do you mean that there is no need for such a utility?

You bet there is a need.  People are always asking what filled up my disk 
since the last time I checked it.  It would be very helpful if it not only 
had a parm for the date to start but the minimum size of the object to list.  
A lot of times people are looking to find large objects that have taken up a 
big percentage of the disk.  I'm not sure what MATCTX gives.  The last 
listing you provided as an example would certainly be useful for some 
circumstances.  And would be great to have available.  :-)  I think what 
comes up most is the amount of change since a particular date instead of 
the total size of the object currently.  My understanding of what that 
means is one program would have to be run once to keep a snap shot of all 
objects at that time.  Then a print out of all objects changed since the 
snap shot with the difference in size listed.

I wonder if there would be anyone on the MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com 
list that could contribute to the usefulness of this?

Gary Kuznitz

  
> Of course, there is a fast way of doing this. Use MATCTX
> with a selection of timestamp since. But, my question
> was: can the user easily and fast get this information?
> without actually saving all changed objects.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Phil Hall [SMTP:hallp@ssax.com]
> > Sent:       Thursday, November 18, 1999 11:55 AM
> > To: MI400@midrange.com
> > Subject:    Detecting changing objects...
> > 
> > Leif,
> > 
> > > before embarking on this let us get a consensus as to whether
> > > the system already provides this in an efficient manner, i.e.
> > > real time.
> > >
> > > anyone?
> > 
> > Yes the system does this - can you imagine how (much ;-) slower
> > SAVCHGOBJ would be if the system didn't have a nice place to retrieve
> > this information from...
> > 
> > --phil
> > 

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