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Re: Unprotect Storage

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



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