RE: system is loosing disk space at extraordinary rate

["Fritz Hayes" <fhayes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did you put on any TCP/IP to SNA remote controllers onto the system?
Have had to deal with your problem as caused by the controllers.


Best Regards

Fritz Hayes
Atwater Associates

| this is a strange one:
| I did a release upgrade on a V4R4 machine (a 720) to V4R5 in november
last
| year.
| We were at about 50% used disk space at that time. PTF package
C0198450
| was
| installed at that date as well, everything went fine.
| Since we did not do any further IPLs since then, we someday noticed
that
| something
| is eating up disk space, until we reached 92 % last week.
| Searching for the culprit was at no avail, we ended every user jobs,
ended
| every non-system
| job on the system, it eats space on and on. A short calculation led us
to
| round about
| 300 MB (!) temporary space which is used up every day since november.
| WRKSYSSTS showed 29 GB of temp used space out of 77 GB total, this is
38 %
| of the
| whole system !
| When we scheduled an IPL to get rid of the temporary used space, I did
| endsbs *all *immed
| at first hand and suddenly all our used disk space was free again !
You
| could watch it coming
| back available when pressing F5 in wrkssysts display. I never saw this
| behaviour on an AS/400
| before. IBM support was nearly as helpless as we, we ordered some PTFs
| that might help ...
|
| Any hints anybody ?
|