DASD utilization software

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Is anyone out in 400 land using a vendor disk utility to monitor dasd growth. Personal evaluations good or bad are appreciated.

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Roland, There are several out there, but I find it to be less costly and a little more fulfilling to write my own. There are several IBM commands that you can send to *outfile and I'm sure there are some APIs that give the same information, but the *outfile method works fine for me. I do a dspobjd of every object in my main libraries that have records added/deleted and to my programmer's source/object/test libraries as well. You can then run QUERY/400 over the *outfile to read and sort the information the way you would like. I run this weekly to see what objects and/or libraries are growing the fastest, to see what can be done to control them. -bret

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We have an in-house written application that tracks by day, reports the last 10 days by owner, and shows differences (plus/minus), reports the top 10 libraries, top 20 users. It also has a history of space utilization back 5 years for growth projection. OS/400 has a set of collection/reporting utilities under the ASSIST Menu. We also have the Help Systems ROBOT/CPA Job Accounting Application that collects disk usage for chargeback. And we just recently installed ROBOT/SPACE from Help Systems. The latter isn't fully set up in the 400 yet. It's supposed to do something similiar to our in-house job, plus provide a Client GUI for graphs and queries. It looks at multiple machines. I would like to see it offered as an application under the Navigator. All the above provide a data base that can be accessed from an ODBC job on the workstation for ACCESS or EXCEL stuff. HTH.

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Bret, Does your method monitor for IFS disk utilization?

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Ricardo, Since I don't know what IFS is: Probably not, unless IFS are stored in my data or object libraries. -bret

[nycsusan@hotmail.com]

IFS = Integrated File System

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I guess I should have replied: I know the what it stands for, but don't know exactly what they are for. -bret "techno dunce" myrick

[nycsusan@hotmail.com]

I am just getting used to it myself. From what I gather, it seems to be a folders system, akin to directories on a PC. Here they use it to keep spreadsheets, or tables derived from Excel spreadsheets. Frankly I am not sure which and I don't want to ask. I never used it before I came here.

[bibarnes@yahoo.com]

I have an in-house useage report that I have given to a few on here. I have modified it since then if anyone is interested. It's geared to run weekly and shows the top 200 sized files and the size changes over a 7 week period. give me your e-mail address and I'll send a save file to you. Bill Barnes

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Thanks for your reply, Bill. My email address is RSALAS@NATMAN.COM