RE: Disk Space Was: Audit log retention & disk space

What gets me are the folks who won't purge obsolete stuff. I have
demonstrated to one client that he could recover 25% of the 17TB he's using
by doing 2 things - Running reorgs on files with millions of deleted
records, and getting rid of transaction and customer comment records going
all the way back to the 90's.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 8:44 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Disk Space Was: Audit log retention & disk space

What gets me are those who use the same space clearing techniques which
they used when they had 300MB total space.

Always start out with RTVDSKINF, and when that's done, PRTDSKINF *SYS

Suggesting that I look at the number of spool files on a system like this
% of Size in
Description Disk 1,000,000 bytes
User libraries 6.94 271609.62
User directories 71.35 2793284.59
Folders and documents .00 .11
QSYS .07 2549.62
Other IBM libraries .40 15763.21
Licensed Internal Code .21 8224.77
Temporary space .76 29636.85
Unused space 20.25 792811.35
System internal objects .01 481.01
Objects not in a library .00 .00
TOTAL 99.99 3914361.13

is a sure sign you need to update your techniques. Especially when it
breaks it down later and spool doesn't even take up 1/100 of one percent.

System Information*

% of Size in
Description Disk 1,000,000
bytes
Space used by system internal objects:
...
Spool .00 27.47
...
Miscellaneous items reported:
Printer output & Spooling (QSPL) .00 87.94


Rob Berendt