Paul,
Storage growth is continuous, we do a lot of journaling and wondered if
something had changed on that end with the upgrade, but nothing that we've
found. We were thinking if it was that, then the growth would have
plateaud but seems to grow above and beyond. We've not identified any
patterns as of yet.
We've been doing a RTVDSKINF and PRTDSKINF to gather info about the
system, including the IFS and doing compares to help with this process.
We don't allow users to create their own queries, which is both a blessing
and a curse, but not having to worry about those 'string of pearls' as we
call them.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: PaulMmn [mailto:PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2017 9:10 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Cc: Ken Meade
Subject: RE: Post-mortem on v7r1 to v7r3 upgrade
At 8:04 AM -0400 11/3/17, Ken Meade wrote (in part):
...and increasing disk consumption (not all related to the additional
indices).
Is your storage growth continuous / random / periodic? Anything that
makes a pattern? Only when George signs on?
Check the IFS. There are 'things' there that you'll never find the hard
way! We use a PC-based program to scan the IFS through a mapped network
drive (to the IFS root). It gives us some hints as to where the
objects/space are growing.
You say you're running WebQuery. How 'bout work files? Do you let your
users create their own queries (either WebQuery or AS/400 Query)? Some
are sophisticated enough to create a string of queries, with intermediate
files fed into the next query. Our users are supposed to use 'official'
work libraries, and we scan them regularly to spot any files that have
been created and abandoned.
--Paul E Musselman
midrange.com
