Re: File Size / Reuse Deleted Records

Hi Chuck

I should have known someone would pull me up on that.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:01 AM, CRPence <crpbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 14-Jan-2016 13:54 -0700, Evan Harris wrote:

In the last 10+ years the only "runaway jobs" I have ever seen that
had any out of control impact on DASD usage were the result of WRKQRY
with file output selected. These files are also created by default
with *NOMAX so there is no way to prevent someone chewing up the
storage via WRKQRY short of managing storage at the profile level
(which I also never bother with). <<SNIP>>

See QQUPRFOPTS for establishing the setting for the three elements for
number of records [Initial, Increment size, Increments] for Output File
(OUTFILE) Size (SIZE) attribute, documented in the following TechNote
document Reference #: N1010668 Historical Number 6515203:
[http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1010668]
_Query Enhancements Implemented Using Special Data Areas_

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Regards, Chuck


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