Re: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400/iSeries/System i

   It's likely you are correct on the 1.8TB limit. However, not even Frankie
   III has enough disk for me to test that on! Howsomever if you DO have
   1.8TB of DASD to scrub I'm guessing you have more than one processor and
   thus would likely want to run multiple copies of the program each with
   their own 1.8TB (or less) of file to work with. Or if you have lots of
   time, user opens will work too!
    
    - Larry
    
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     To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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     Date: 01/19/2007 08:22AM
     Subject: Re: Erasing DASD-decommission an AS400/iSeries/System i

     Isn't the number of bytes in a file member limited to 1.8TB?
     
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/dbp/rbafoappmax.htm
     You'd have to make the file USROPN.  ADDPFM a new member like
     A000000002.
     EXTNAME to that member with that variable.  OPEN the file.  WRITE until
     error occurs.  CLOSE.
     Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

     Ah, the beauties of Open Source, we can all pool our ideas on how to
     improve the program.

     Rob Berendt
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