Re: mystery file on disk report

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 06:04 PM 7/7/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Bob Clarke 3rd x4502 wrote:
>> 
>> Some time ago (almost a year perhaps) I posted a message to the list
>> regarding a mysterious file showing up on my disk space reports.  Most of
>> those who responded seemed to feel that doing a RCLSTG would likely get rid
>> of this file.  Unfortunately this was not the case and I'm as perplexed as
>> ever.  Here again are the details.
>> 
>> >From Disk Space Report (via disktasks menu):
>> 
>>      Object:        (blank ... no name listed)
>>      Library:       (blank ... no library listed)
>>      Type:          *STMF
>>      Owner:         QSECOFR
>>      % of Disk:     1.98% (never changes from week to week)
>>      Size in Kbytes:     524330.0 (never changes from week to week)
>>      Last Change:   07/06/97 (this is always the date of the last IPL)
>>      Last Use: (blank ... never changes)
>>      Description:   *NOLIB
>> 
>> Again, I ask:
>> 
>>      Does anyone know what this is?
>>      If so, is it something I need?
>>      If not, how can I get rid of it?
>> 
>> Any insight would be much appreciated.  Thanks in advance!!
>Bob,
>
>   Since this is a Stream type file, you might want to try a RCLDLO, I
>am not promising anything, but its worth trying. 
>
Well, I didn't know what *STMF was.  Thank you all.  *NOLIB is where OS/400
puts internal objects.  For example, job message queues were all kept in
*NOLIB prior to V2R3.

Al



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