RE: 0KB files in IFS

[Gary Thompson <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good point Vern.

We have a scheduled job to delete files from our IFS.

We use a version of Scott Klement's DELTREE to delete by
date depending on a number of days which we set by
our document retention needs.


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 9:52 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: 0KB files in IFS

Even a 0KB file may take at least a page of disk - 4KB - take an option 8 on one of these in the IFS and page down once to see size on disk.

Vern

----- Original Message -----
We have a warehouse application hosted on a "wintel" server that sends files by FTP to our iSeries IFS.

We see a pattern where we will receive hundreds of files on our IFS which
have no data.   In System i Navigator, the size appears as: 0KB

When opened using DSPF the "green screen" shows no data.

We have not yet determined if this is a problem with our network, the warehouse application, or something about FTP on the "wintel" server.

The problem is periodic, meaning we will get bunches of these files at about the same time of day for a number of days, then "things return to normal" (no empty files).

My current SWAG is the cause is somewhere in our network configuration.
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