RE: DASD housekeeping

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm a little confused by this reply, IBM Content Manager (now known as DB2
Content Manager) is primarily a document management system.  If it could be
used to manage DASD at all, it would certainly be an expensive solution.

Per http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/cm/v8.html "DB2 Content Manager
provides a foundation for managing, accessing and integrating critical
business information on demand."

AFAIK the only good way to manage your DASD is to be a "storage Nazi" and
run regular reports on usage and yell at the abusers to clean up their
stuff.

Various products exist that will go through the system and identify things
like PTF save files that can safely be deleted, but from what I've seen
these easily identified items rarely add up to much space.  In my opinion
the big hitters for DASD usage are usually the ouputs from large queries,
copies of production files or logicals over large files that might be
created and used once or duplicate existing logicals.  You need to have
historical data to identify these things.  I use a program called CRTLIBHST
that came from the April 99 issue of News/400 (still available in the
iSeries Network archives http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/artarchive/index.cfm
though you now have to be a "Professional Member" get the code.)  I run this
weekly and when I see a programmer's library grow by a GB in a week I know
that I need to give them a call.

You can also use the Disk Space Reports from go Disktasks for this.  The key
is to run the reports regularly and keep historical data for this to be
useful.

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
AS/400 System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group


-----Original Message-----
date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:34:43 +0700
from: Fery Gideon <Fery@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: DASD housekeeping

Dear Jerome,

For AS/400 system maybe you can ask IBM for asking their software called 
IBM Content Manager.


Best Regards,
Fery Gideon
AS/400 System Administrator
Ph: 62-21-5723777 ext 233



Jerome Draper <jdraper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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18/07/2003 05:02
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Subject
DASD housekeeping

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