I am curious.  Do I care if it is full or if it has a lot of splits (CA/CI)?  I 
had one catalog in my past we called a database because it was over 700,000 
entries.  We reorged it every weekend because it performed poorly due to the 
splits, not the size.

Lizette


>
>Other posters have responded with good, practical solutions.  We had a
>"solution" years ago that was neither.  We kept several hundred dummy
>aliases in a user catalog in order to keep it full, artificially.  If we
>needed to define a few new ones, we deleted some dummies.
>
>Excusing my failing memory,  but I believe the magic number was greater than
>3,000.  For some reason 8,000 sticks in my mind.  Maybe it was function of
>the CISIZE of the catalog itself.  ??
>
>

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