Re: DASD housekeeping

It's cheaper to buy more and more.  Well, it can be once you hit the law 
of diminishing returns.  Instead of assuming that, "Hey, I can delete 5 
items from my item master that are inactive.  Let's see, I'll just check 
all these related files, etc.  Great, I saved $1 work of disk and it only 
took me 2 days of labor."

We do sort the files created by the disk reports by size descending.  If 
it ain't in the top 100, we don't care.

We also run a report weekly that reports library size growth.  Helps to 
spot new libraries or a potential spawn of oodles of new objects in a 
library.

Our biggest growth appears in the IFS.  Actually our IFS usage makes all 
of DB2 look like small potatoes.  We run reports that list IFS directories 
and their size.  Only root directories are listed.  All subdirectories are 
lumped in under their parent.  If any directory, or any individual ifs 
file's GROWTH exceeds a size stored in a data area, then an email is sent 
to certain people to check that out.  Normally it is someone who received 
a huge Powerpoint presentation in an email.  There was this gal (hint: 
laid off from our department but rehired by a related company) that sent 
out a Powerpoint presentation of some items for sale for a company charity 
fundraiser.  Like everyone in the company needed a 4MB attachment. 
Geepers, we do have an internal web site.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 





Jerome Draper <jdraper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I have run the disk analysis collection pgm on go disktasks and then the 
resultant reports which are useful.

How do others manage their DASD (aside from simply buying more and more 
and 
more)?

We have beaucoup libraries of junk, savf, saved dups, just-in-case dbf, 
etc.

I want a system but hasn't someone already invented it?

Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems
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