Re: AW: Disk balancing - when

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

At 12:04 PM 7/27/00 -0500, you wrote:

That is what STRASPBAL (new in V4R4) accomplishes.

Al


>When the 400 was new, we used to do a complete unload/reload and that
>made a world of difference in performance.
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>barsa2@ibm.net on 07/27/2000 10:03:29 AM
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> >I take it, STRDSKRGZ is something like defrag under DOS..
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>The nice thing about this list is that I learn something new every day.
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>I had never heard of the STRDSKRGZ command, so when I went to prompt it,
>shizam (holy Gomer Pyle) it was there.  Although I needed specific
>authority to it.
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>So I called my good folks in zip code 55901, and asked them what it does.
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>The short answer is that it's a disk defragger.
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>Armed with my knowledge that in 99.9999999999% of all cases, OS/400 does an
>outstanding job handling free space, I asked why do you need it.  What
>followed was a long answer, which nets out that it's a placebo!  You
>virtually never need it (although there were some bugs in V3R1 - remember
>that release, the one that absorbed - where it helped), but it stands there
>as a placebo to make people think that the system has done something.  It
>was pointed out to me that Level 2 likes to recommend it to customers, as
>it gives them a warm fuzzy.
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>There were some plans not to bring this command across from CISC to RISC,
>but there were some large customers that demanded that it be kept.
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>One might think that If Rochester has the budget to maintain placebo
>commands, then they could find the trivial budget to keep DDS competitive
>with SQL, so that programmers that create databases would have the power of
>DDS to cost effectively maintain databases.
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>Ah, DDS is not an industry standard so we cannot afford to maintain it, but
>placebo commands are!!!
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>Enclosed find one gift certificate, redeemable at the Mayo Clinic for a
>lobotomy.
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>Al
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Al Barsa, Jr. - Account for Midrange-L
Barsa Consulting, LLC.  
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http://www.barsaconsulting.com
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