Re: IFS "brick wall" limit on subdirectories

On 4/16/2016 4:46 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

I am pretty sure that WRKLNK has limits to how many it can display - around 32K, maybe. The message saying there are too many objects to display doesn't tell us what the limit is.

That's one place.

I think the ls QShell function can show more.

Now you've got me wondering - the ls command may indeed work. But then try to move the files. mv won't do it. You have to figure out how to mv one chunk at a time. Same with rm.

There's the ls function in PASE, as well, and that should have the limits of AIX, not IBM i.

As I noted above, ls might indeed work. The problem is then doing something: moving a large quantity of files (or removing or copying or doing anything with them). I know I tried PASE as well.

Then DSPF against an IFS directory is different from opt 5 in WRKLNK - I don't know what limits it has. We have a directory with over 70,000 files in it - DSPF against it seems not limited - it is a somewhat funky interface but worth a look, just for fun!

Now some functions in DSPF can stall out with that many objects - F16 can sort it but spins a long time, etc.

I sometimes go to Windows Explorer to work with all this stuff. Sorry to say, right?

Mapped drives with hundreds of thousands of file fail just as miserably.