RE: Oh where has my disk space gone?

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Rob:

On Thu, 15 November 2001, rob@dekko.com wrote:

> Hey, you wouldn't be fixing anything if you didn't know it was broke would
> you?  Perhaps you ARE using it?

Not necessarily. The various Client Access client LPPs are an example. Many 
iSeries and AS/400 systems have these installed on the server but don't need 
them there because the clients are installed from CD or from another, usually 
NT, server in the network as are the service packs. But because they are 
installed on the iSeries/AS400, cume PTFs apply fixes that often have no useful 
point. (Note that this is separate from fixes to the server-side code, the host 
servers, etc.) Not only space but time as well is wasted.



Tom Liotta

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> I would agree with the assertion below that the removal of 'unneeded'
> licensed programs will gain you much disk space.  I would say though
> that I have always gone through and deleted such things as S36 RPG and
> double-byte Client Access because of the time taken during PTF
> application.  If I know I'm not going to use a certain product, I don't
> want to spend time fixing them every time I apply a cume PTF CD.  Not a
> big deal, but important to me.

--
Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
19426 68th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
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