RE: reorg HUGE file

That's another good point.  Did the system let you "easily" cancel the job?
How long after you issued the ENDJOB did the job actually end?  It seems to me
that some system functions won't relinquish control to an ENDJOB until it's
darned good and ready which might well be the end of the job anyway, but you
still lose all the work it did because you canceled it.  But I could be wrong.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

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We recently went through this with a file containing 152 million records, of
which 107 million are deleted (neither number is a typo).  We attempted to
reorganize the file using RGZPFM, but were forced to cancel the job after
three days.

So we ran an experiment using a CPYF to another library and then another
CPYF back to a copy of the original file with the three logical files
including the members.  This process consumed only seven and a half hours.

In a few weeks, we intend to try this with the real thing.

We are running a dual processor model 640 at V4R1.

Hope that helps.

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company
(804) 784-7500 ext. 2124
Don.Fisher@HeiligMeyers.com


-----Original Message-----
From: D.BALE@handleman.com [mailto:D.BALE@handleman.com]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 7:47 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: reorg HUGE file


I've got a file with 40 million records, 10 million of which are deleted.
The
file is over 14 GB.
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