Re: QADBIFLD

Al,

    This file can not be reorged by regular means because it is always
locked by  QDBSRVXR or QDBSRVXR2.  The only way to clean up the deleted
records is to do a RCLSTG.  You can either do a full RCLSTG, or just
reorg the Database Xref files.  If you run this, it will reorg all the
QABD* files, which is what you want.  This file tends to get huge on
test/development systems where you are creating/deleting, restoring,
files onto your system.   There is also a program in QSYS called
QDBRCLXR which will also reorg the QADB files.  In any case, you Must be
in a  restricted state to do the reorgs on these QADB files.

    We recommend that people do a RCLSTG at least once a year, and
preferably every 6 months, but that comment will probably create as many
replies as which religion is better :)

    Pete Massiello

MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:

>This has probably come up before & possibly even I brought it up.
>Seems to me there are objects in QSYS like this one that manage to amass a
>large number of deleted records of significant size.
>
>What I desire is
>
>1. Some IBM menu option that I ought to run periodically to clean up these
>QSYS objects, like I have in my application management to clean up
>application objects.  It would be even better if GO CLEANUP or WRKSYSVAL
>could set some standard for cleaning them up regularly.
>
>2. Reminder what the heck this is for ... is there some way to adjust values
>of what it includes ... I am having trouble believing that any object needs
>to be that large ... to make it smaller, is that an application design issue?
>
>Our QADBIFLD in QSYS is currently
>188,890 good records
>22,407 deleted records
>record length 4,876
>meaning 110 meg bytes wasted by deleted records
>and 1 gig bytes total size of the file
>Am I estimating that math right?
>Our entire 400 is only 12 gig
>
>MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
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