RE: Question on 'appropriateness' of using QSH commands to clean up traditional QSYS files....

You mentioned having TAATOOLS in another post.

You can purge based on create date DLTOLDOBJ

DLTOLDOBJ LIB(SAVFPRDDTA)
CRTDAYS(1)
OBJTYPE(*FILE)
ACTION(*DELETE)

Chris Hiebert
Senior Programmer/Analyst
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Andrew Lopez (SXS US)
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Subject: Question on 'appropriateness' of using QSH commands to clean up traditional QSYS files....

We use a number of QSH commands to clean the IFS of old log files produced by JD Edwards.

I have recently instituted a special backup to SAVF of sensitive files that we are having to open up to new users to maintain. These are created in library SAVFPRDDTA with names like CFG200922 (CFGyymmdd). I need to put in place some regular purges of these daily backups.

What I don't have a feel for is how common/accepted would it be to use QSH commands to clean up files in the traditional file system? We would be using something like 'find /QSYS.LIB/SAVFPRDDTA.LIB -type f -name 'CFG*.FILE' -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;'. This works, but I've never seen it done or demoed (though I could well have missed the examples). I could do a traditional dump of DSPOBJ or DSPFD and process the records, but it's not in my nature to create temporary files when the system can handle them better than I can.

So, acceptable? Reasonable? I really prefer to not branch out into 'experimental' approaches and have no idea where this would fall in the IBM i world.