RE: RCLSTG (Was: Preventative Maintenance For AS400)

We run them as needed; maybe about every 14-18 months normally.  Maybe
also in front of an upgrade, but not necessarily.  The last one on our
730, in June, with 65 17GB drives at about 45% took 1 hour 40 minutes.

Our dev/DR box last did one in June of 2003; at that time it would have
beena 720 with 30 17GB drives and (guessing) 35-40% full.  That RCLSTG
took 1 hour 9 minutes.

Our 570, installed late last year, has yet to do an RCLSTG.  

Historically, it has seemed like if you do them regularly they don't
take as long.

Scott, yours is the first day+ reclaim I've heard about since the white
box days.  

For those who don't know, DSPDTAARA QRCLSTG gives the starting and
ending date & time of the last RCLSTG along with the then-OS release,
system name, and serial number.

At a former employer, we havd a D10 or D20 with 4 drives.  It was not on
power protection as it was just a small test box.  It eventually ran out
of DASD & locked up.  As part of the recovery process we RCLSTGed it.
Some hours later it finished and the DASD usage had dropped to 35%.