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

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

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

Bret, <p>Does your method monitor for IFS disk utilization?

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

IFS = Integrated File System

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

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

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

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