RE: How many members in a file?

Okay, but do they provide the tool(s) needed to do that purge? Do they even
indicate that such purge is needed periodically? I worked for a software
firm years ago that had similar issues (deleted records, not members), but
we provided the tools to cut down the file size, pointed it out in client
training, but left it to them for scheduling.

Jerry C. Adams
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 2:42 PM
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Subject: Re: How many members in a file?

I believe GENTRAN expects you to schedule a periodic purge...that what I
always did..

Charles

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

And Gentran never thought of this as a problem?!

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Walter
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 11:46 AM
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Subject: RE: How many members in a file?

Sounds like one of the GT files from Gentran.

I have to manually purge them once a week at one of my clients.

Mark Walter
Business to Business Data Integration Specialist Certified IBM System
i Specialist Paragon Consulting Services, Inc.
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[midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry C. Adams
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Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 12:44 PM
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Subject: RE: How many members in a file?

Why not just archive and remove them as they are used?  I realize
that, since it's a package, it's probably not possible to modify the
package per se, but many vendors provide hooks for user apps.

Alternatively, could you change the file to *NoMax and clean it up as
part of a nightly save or some such maintenance cycle?

Jerry C. Adams
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Hightower
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 11:05 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: How many members in a file?


Is there a field in the INFDS to tell me how many members are in a
file?  If not, is there something else I can do to quickly return the

count?

The reason I'm asking is that we have an EDI file that fills up to max
members every so often (3rd party package), and things go south real
quick when that happens.  I'd like to write a monitor that will report
when the file is nearing capacity, giving us a chance to archive and
cleanup before we run into issues.

Tom
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