Re: Freeing Deleted Disk Space

[Dr Syd Nicholson <sydnic@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scotty,

Beware reoragising files on some legacy applications. Some of them use
releative record numbers to access data and will crash if the file is
reorganised outwith their control software. Check with your application
provider

If it is safe to reorganise the file and the file is likely to
frequently have large numbers deleted records, you could try changing
the file to reuse the space occupied by the deleted records. Use -

CHGPFM fileName REUSEDLT(*YES).

The is a very slight performance hit on doing this, but it eliminates
the need to regularly reoganise files, and all the hasle associated with
it.

Syd Nicholson



Scotty Muir wrote:

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>Hi All
>
>This is probably a very simple question for someone on the list and I have
>been unable to find the answer in my book manager documentation. We are
>relatively new to the AS/400 and are running an older box using OS/400
>version 3.2.
>We have a file (*File PF-Data) on the AS/400 that one of our programmer has
>deleted a lot of records from, but we have not gotten back any of the freed
>disk space. Is there a option or function that we need to do?
>Thank You
>Scotty
>
>____________________________
>Scotty Muir
>SR. Systems Programmer
>Triangle Suspension Systems
>DuBois, PA.
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