Re: RTVDSKINF Data Question

[bll1981 <bll1981@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jack,

Its been a very long time since I have used RTVDSKINF/PTRDSKINF as there are software packages that do a much better job of collecting storage metrics. I had a script that would copy out QCURRENT from QUSRSYS/QAEZDISK, rename the member with a date identifier, and deposit the newly copied member into an archive file I created. The accompanying script would swap out the necessary archived member if I ever wanted to re-print as PRTDSKINF will only read from QUSRSYS/QAEZDISK.QCURRENT (to my knowledge). 

For a better solution check with Helpsystems and ask for a Robot Space Demo. Space is a GUI product that has collection jobs on the iSeries. Its the best iSeries disk space product I have ever seen. As an alternative, S4iSystems makes a product called DasdPlus that is cheaper but lacks some really nice GUI copy functions because its interface is still 100% telnet. Obviously the downside is these 3rd party products cost money whereas RTVDSKINF is free (-: 



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From: Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, December 3, 2009 12:26:51 PM
Subject: RTVDSKINF Data Question

Is there a way to create seperate instances of the RTVDSKINF data.  It looks
like saving it then restoring it back would be the only way.  I need to find
out what is consuming disk storage on a machine and I wanted one to use as a
benchmark per-se.