Re: RTVDSKINF Data Question

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:15 PM, bll1981 <bll1981@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jack,
>
> Its been a very long time since I have used RTVDSKINF/PTRDSKINF as there
> are software packages that do a much better job of collecting storage
> metrics. I had a script that would copy out QCURRENT from QUSRSYS/QAEZDISK,
> rename the member with a date identifier, and deposit the newly copied
> member into an archive file I created. The accompanying script would swap
> out the necessary archived member if I ever wanted to re-print as PRTDSKINF
> will only read from QUSRSYS/QAEZDISK.QCURRENT (to my knowledge).
>
> For a better solution check with Helpsystems and ask for a Robot Space
> Demo. Space is a GUI product that has collection jobs on the iSeries. Its
> the best iSeries disk space product I have ever seen. As an alternative,
> S4iSystems makes a product called DasdPlus that is cheaper but lacks some
> really nice GUI copy functions because its interface is still 100% telnet.
> Obviously the downside is these 3rd party products cost money whereas
> RTVDSKINF is free (-:
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thu, December 3, 2009 12:26:51 PM
> Subject: RTVDSKINF Data Question
>
> Is there a way to create seperate instances of the RTVDSKINF data.  It
> looks
> like saving it then restoring it back would be the only way.  I need to
> find
> out what is consuming disk storage on a machine and I wanted one to use as
> a
> benchmark per-se.
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