RE: save while active v7r1 - *IBM and also SAV

Years back when I found out IFS SWA has no wait time, I asked why and would IBM consider adding/changing this.
Answer was no, would lengthen and add too much time to IFS save.

What else interesting, it is difficult to see what IFS objects are actually in use, even if read only.
No green screen command.
Ops Nav, then drill down to the STMF, and check the "USE" tab on properties.

I was trying force some locks on IFS objects to see and test the IFS save issues and failures.
Wrklnk, 2=edit, does not even show file in use.

Most of our IFS object usage are temporary objects, so the solution has been to point to the tmp folder, which is omitted by default.

Paul


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Subject: RE: save while active v7r1 - *IBM and also SAV

According to document N1012637 it looks like save while active on stream files has three options: *NO, *YES, *SYNC. They all have one thing in common - they all skip anything that's locked with no waiting. The differences?
*NO: No synchronization. If you have an application that updates myorderheader.csv and myorderdetail.csv it will not try to save them at any particular simultaneous snapshot. If they are locked it won't save them at all.
*YES: Sync's "groups" at 2,000-10,000 objects per group. Hopefully those two files are in the same group. If any of them are locked it won't save that one.
*SYNC: Sync's all requested stream files as one snapshot. If any of them are locked it won't save that one.

In IBM i 7.2 IBM has gone whole hog with CHGATR OBJ(...) ATR(*ALWSAV) VALUE(*NO). Many 'log' type directories are now flagged with that and will not be saved. Even with a dedicated restricted state save.


Rob Berendt
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