Re: Easy PTF retrieval ate up the DASD

175GB DASD is a pithy amount by today's standards. I bought some time for
our 520 development server several years back by replacing 6 of the 8 35GB
drives with the 70 GB drives, and switched from mirrored protection to RAID
5. Even with that, I expect to buy a Power 9 server next year. By that time
the small drives will probably be in the 500GB range.



On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was watching last week's thread on Easiest PTF Upgrade Retrieval with
interest as I know I'm behind on PTFs.


So I submitted a SNDPTFORD PTFID((*CUMPKG)) and let it run. Within a
couple of hours, my system hit 95% storage utilization, up from around
88%. I made the decision to cancel the job instead of letting the storage
go critical.



I followed that up by doing a DLTPTF PTF(*ALL) LICPGM(*ALL), and running
the Clean Up Fixes in Navigator. The system was IPL'd over the weekend,
but is still sitting at 94% utilization instead of the 88% before I started
this endeavor.



Any suggestions for clearing up this space?



For the record, we are on a 520 at 7.1 with just 175GB DASD. I have been
working on the boss for 2 years to get him to agree to an upgrade, but have
not yet been successful. Maybe I should just let the PTFs fill the disk
and crash the system...


Thanks

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk




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