RE: something using up DASD -- MIDRANGE-L

I had a similar situation on our 820 with 120G of DASD where overnight 1G or
so would be used up and I could not trace it down.  I finally solved it by
running RTVDSKINF on daily at 2:00 a.m., along with a query (scheduled
several hours later) that lists ALL OBJECTS over 100mb sorted by size.
RTVDSKINF creates a file, QAEZDISK, over which the query runs.

This procedure is very useful if ran daily as indicated.  The culprit in my
case turned out to be an object called *INTSYSJRN.  This object can grow
really fast overnight.  It's less than a MB today but was over 1.2G just
last week.
 
For what it's worth, below is a snip from my query of QAEZDISK that ran this
morning.

 

  Object                 Object   Text Description
Object   Object      Object      Last  
                        Size
Type     Library     Owner       Used  
 
Date  
 *TDSKSPC      120,259,084,288
*SYS                                   
 *UNUSED        40,219,246,592
*SYS                                   
 IMHIST          6,807,474,176   Inventory transaction history file
FILE     AMFLIBE     AMAPICS     031013
 $PRDRGH         1,477,570,560   Product Registration Header File
FILE     AMFLIBE     ROBM        031012
 MOHDTA          1,345,904,640   Order history-component detail
FILE     AMFLIBE     AMAPICS     031010
 $LPND             986,353,664   License Plate Detail
FILE     AMFLIBE     ROBM        031011
 *VLICOTHER        985,243,648
*SYS                                   
 MBDDREP           929,099,776   Shipment release physical file
FILE     AMFLIBE     AMAPICS     031013
 *TMPSPACE         888,909,824
*SYS                                   
 IMHIST01          777,015,296   Inventory transaction history logical
FILE     AMFLIBE     AMAPICS     031012
 OEITXN            713,076,736   COM-transaction file
FILE     AMFLIBE     AMAPICS     031010
 MBGFCPP           655,409,152   Historical tax physical file
FILE     AMFLIBE     AMAPICS     031012
 *JOB              649,271,296
*INT                                   
 AMBSRC            616,349,696   Customer Order Management Source
FILE     AMMLIBU     QDFTOWN     030925

Hope this helps. 


       

-----Original Message-----
From: Rubino, Jim [mailto:Jim.Rubino@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 12:58 PM
To: 'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: something using up DASD


Since we upgraded our operating system from V4R5 to V5R2.........our DASD
used keeps on climbing.  Can anyone tell me where to look for files that the
system maybe using that can be cleared?  Is there something running that we
do not need to be running that is using up disk space?  This is on an
ISeries 730, we have 154.6G of DASD and currently 92.2575 % is used up.
This machine is our development machine we only do programming mods and
changes on this machine with some users doing some testing.  This machine is
almost a mirror of our production machine for data. When we left on Friday
it was just under 90 % and I has increased from 91.0118 % this morning.  Any
help anyone can give on where to look would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Jim Rubino
Senior Business Systems Analyst
FIKE CORPORATION
704 South 10th Street
Blue Springs, Mo.  64015
(816) 229-6216  Ext. 213
 

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