________________________________ From: Ted MacNEIL <eamacn...@yahoo.ca> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, March 4, 2010 2:14:52 PM Subject: Re: Defrag
>I agree wholeheartedly! I don't. It's a tool. Use it when necessary. >Out of the 78TB I have, I have only one volume that ever needs to be defragged >(every couple months). You're fortunate. Not all of us have the luxury. Don't get me wrong. Defrag, as evil as it may be, is still a valid tool. Don't do unnatural acts just to avoid it. ----------SNIP-------------------------- A couple of places I worked were doing defrag's "because we have always done it". Personally I think its move of a case of what kind of work the place does than anything. After doing research on a couple of companies I figured out that it really wasn't needed and stopped the defrags (which were being done on a weekly basis). Some small tuning of volumes and some ACS routines the defrags ended and were never run again as I took away the RACF privileges to the STC's. I think over the following year we had 1 space issue and it was a temporary condition. No more extra OT for the operators that was a benny that made the operators happy as we had to have two on at all times when the computer was powered up. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
