Re: Date Last used

["Joe Teff" <jteff19@xxxxxxx>]

A related issue here is "soft deletes" or records that are deleted by a code
in the record than physically being deleted. These situations are harder to
find but can be a bigger culprit than physically deleted records.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: Date Last used


>Scott,
>
>You have gotten a TON of great advice. I've been where you are several
times in
>the past !
>
>One thing I would add is to check for files that need to be reorganized !
SOME
>3rd party vendors (and usually the ones that create multiple million record
files
>and are constantly deleting out of them...) have files with deleted record
counts
>that would BLOW your mind ! We actually had 7-8 million record files with 5
or 6
>active records in them !!!
>
>I wrote a series of programs several years ago that would check files in
all
>libraries for this and produce a list.
>
>Also check for unneeded PTF SAVF's and also permanently apply PTF's !!!
>
>Exactly what box are you on, what model drives and what OS version ?
>
>Good luck !
>
>Chuck
>
>Scott Swaim wrote:
>
>> Is it OK to deleted objects from you system that have been install on the
>> system from the beginning but do not have a date last used?  I have a
system
>> that is nearing 90% and it is not feasible to upgrade at this time.  I
would
>> like to remove unused objects from the IBM libraries as I have already
>> cleaned the user libraries.
>>
>> Scott Swaim
>> scott@qualitycorps.com
>>
>> (The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer,
>> unless they are correct.  They would like as much credit as possible.)
>>

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