recapturing disk space without re ipling our as400

[Ccub...@netscape.net]

hi i'm new to the as400 world.. what is the command to get software
version?
problem: our disk space is at 95% full and growing. we can get it down
to 93% if we reboot the system.. this must remove log files etc. I
want to find away to remove them and free up that space without shutting
down... any suggestions.? also we have performance monitoring on the
machine and we want to remove that so we can free more space.
thanks
Chris

[Thomas]

Chris:

At least three menus you need to get familiar with:

1. GO CLEANUP
2. GO PERFORM
3. GO LICPGM

An IPL will get rid of various temporary objects and give you some space
-- temporarily. Once the system runs for a while, new temporary objects
get created and essentially the same space is used again.

Use the CLEANUP menu to set when you want the system to get rid of log
files, etc. Use the PERFORM menu to define your performance monitoring
and to delete performance data that you feel you no longer need. Use
LICPGM to display installed licensed programs to see what
version/release of each is installed.

Tom Liotta

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[John Dunn]

One radical action you can take is to permanently apply all PTFs. You do this
when upgrading the operating system, and is recommended by IBM when a PTF has
been time tested. The danger is that if the PTF needs to be removed (marked in
error, causing you problems), you will either have to beg IBM for a replacement
PTF or slip install the operating system and reapply PTFs.

[Vegas Chip]

Be sure to clean out your output queues. This can buy you a bit of
space depending upon the number of spooled files you purge.

WRKOUTQ *ALL

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[Charles R. Pence]

I think mostly, that will depend on what is getting deleted in the reboot.
There are the objects in QRPLOBJ which get deleted during an IPL, but I'd
warn to take care in delete while the system is active; it can cause some
problems. If the storage is instead the "Temporary Storage" as portrayed
on the WRKSYSSTS screen, an IPL may be the only method to fully recover
that storage; achieving restricted state or ending jobs which take the
storage may be all that is necessary.

However I believe instead, a redirection of concern is in order. Storage
that keeps being taken is probably necessarily correct, and so steps to
eliminate permanent percentages that remain versus temp percentage climbs
during general system usage; that is, archive and delete data which is not
being used. Of course also available is the inverse approach of adding
more disk space to increase the percentages available.

For performance monitoring, try GO CMDPFR

Regards, Chuck
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[David Shea]

Can you clean out some of your data files? Check out ARCTOOLS (see link
below). It will help you free up space and give you a set of tools you can
use to regularly clean up your data.

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