Re: Unprotect Storage

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is space allocated to jobs and used for temporary objects. In direct 
response to your question, we have a product, disk/HUNTER, that takes a 
look at some of this. It runs continuously, monitoring disk free space, and 
when that space goes down enough, various reports are generated that give 
you, among others, the jobs that have the most temporary space assigned to 
them. These are often system jobs.

This temporary stuff is not necessarily visible objects. Another part of 
disk/HUNTER determines - after the free space threshold is exceeded - what 
exact segments on DASD are growing. This will include everything, although 
not all references are easily explained or understood by us civilians. This 
assumes that things that are growing will still grow for awhile.

If this sounds interesting (it's primary purpose is to be a DASD space 
spike detector), check us out at <www.centerfieldtechnology.com>.

At 10:22 AM 3/31/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> I've asked this once before, never got an answer - perhaps some new blood in
> the list (or someone who may have passed-by it in the past) can shed some
> light on this.
>
> On a WRKSYSSTS screen you have the "current unprotect used" and "maximum
> unprotect" - I equate this to essentially being like virtual memory on a PC.
>
> What I don't know is an easy way to see WHAT is using it.  I do know that
> runaway ODBC jobs can start chewing it up - you kill the job, the usage goes
> down.  I don't know how to see any other use.
>
> Is there an easy command or way to see what is consuming this unprotect
> memory, since it does eat DASD just as an object would.  Thanks in advance
> for the assistance.
>
> Justin C. Haase
> Sr. Technical Support Specialist - OutLink
> Jack Henry and Associates - Allen, TX
> www.jackhenry.com