RE: Nightly saves

And you are aware that a GO SAVE -21 does NOT save your entire system, 
right?  And I am not just talking about output queues and data queues 
(which IBM added support for backing up in V5R4).  Turns out that numerous 
directories in the IFS are flagged with a Do Not Save attribute.  We just 
did an Unload/Reload this weekend and several hundred objects were not 
restored because of this.  Luckily I just threatened to clear out /tmp and 
people moved their permanent stuff out of that directory.  That's one 
directory with such a flag. Gets rebuilt on the fly.  You'll also notice 
lots of directories that contain stuff like web logs are also flagged this 
way.

Speaking of rebuilding /tmp on the fly one thing to keep in mind when 
doing an unload/reload is that, starting with V5R3, they turn on an 
attribute in /tmp to "Restrict Rename and Unlink".  I suggest you turn 
that off.  Causes real problems with sending email from your i5.  Maybe 
you should put the turning of that attribute off in your startup program. 
Then again, make sure it exists when your startup hits it, and if not, 
rebuild it with this attribute turned off.

Rob Berendt