Re: STRDSKRGZ

[Pete Massiello <pmassiello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DSKBAL can be PTFed back to V4R1, I dont know the numbers, but if you got
SF97410, and then did a search on DSKBAL, I am sure you would find the PTF.

    Pete

"Allen, Stuart" wrote:

> Allen, Stuart wrote:
>
> > We are due to upgrade a system from 50gb (70% util) non-raided, to 82gb
> with
> > raid 5.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how the actual upgrade will work - will the machine
> > re-allocate the storage over the new dasd arms & create the parity
> > information during IPL, or is there anything else that needs to be done?
> > Any ideas as to how long this will take if so?
>
> OK, have done the upgrade, and after ten days use the new disk arms are at
> 24%, with the old at 54%.
> Billy mentioned that V4R3 and up of os/400 have a disk balance command, but
> we're on V4R2.
> However i heard somewhere that this had been available since V4R1, so did a
> bit of digging on the commands, and came across STRDSKRGZ in the CL
> reference manual.
> This seems to be like a defrag on a pc.
> My question is  1) Will this balance my disk load when it runs ?
>                 2) Is it a good idea to run this command?  I'm a bit
> confused as to what exactly it does in a raid environment!
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Regards
> Stuart
>
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