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Bill: As I understand the issue... On Thu, 24 January 2002, "Bill" wrote: > > If you want to test, generate a DASD filling spooled file, and then delete > > it. You will get your DASD back (almost) immediately. You will not have > > to wait the number of days specified in QRCLSPLSTG. > > This was not my experience on a V4R4 (V4R5?) system. Batch job entered a loop > and was spitting out job logs consistently until we stopped it. A couple > thousand job logs were deleted and we did not regain the disk space until the > spool storage was reclaimed. The difference would be a single very large member compared to many small members. Each member consumes at least two kinds of space; some space is taken up by the member description itself, and other space is taken up by the data that the member holds. Clearing the data from a large member can recover most of the data space although the member description space will remain. Clearing the data from many small members will also recover some space; but the ratio of space recovered to total space used will be smaller since there are so many more descriptions that still exist. Further, with most physical files, the system has some obscure rules about how large a member's data space allocation will be after the member is cleared. (This might change in different releases, so might not apply the same on current releases.) I'm not at all clear on how this might relate to spool members, but it could complicate calculating how much space is recovered. > Also, if the system were to run as you suggest, then what would be the purpose > of the reclaiming storage command? The purpose of RCLSPLSTG would be to remove the unused member descriptions that hang around after the members are cleared, and of course any allocated member data space for those members would be recovered as well. Tom Liotta -- Tom Liotta The PowerTech Group, Inc. 19426 68th Avenue South Kent, WA 98032 Phone 253-872-7788 Fax 253-872-7904 http://www.400Security.com ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/
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