Re: Lock IFS Directory

Requesting IT Ops to modify their backup is possible, but is plan C or D.
They were already kind enough to modify the schedule because of this issue.
The directory is a staging area for PDFs from various sources to be indexed
and imaged into the archives. They're not using SAV but STRBKUBRM.

I'm not trying to change how the IFS backup works, just imitate it's
locking the directory so I can test my changes.

Two thoughs...

1) Do you really need to back up this directory? If the objects are
temporary, I would guess teh answer is no.
2) Have you looked at the SAVACT, SAVACTOPT parms of the SAV command?

Charles

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Jack Prucha <jprucha@xxxxxxx> wrote:

How can I lock or allocate a directory (not a a file or object in the
directory) on the IFS?

We've been getting occasional contention issues between the backup and a
third-party PDF tool which is converting a splf and writing to the ifs.

I

can code around it monitoring for the message the tool throws off, but I
can't test it unless I lock the directory.    Our first fix, schedule
changes, is almost as bad as the original problem as reports are being
generated hours later than needed.

I prefer a command line method if possible.

btw - we're on 5.4

tia