I would be very interested in tools to report on and prune the FCXTREND file. I usually have to use xedit to separate this file by months. Any help would be appreciated.
/Tom Kern --- Eginhard Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As time marches on the size of our Performance Toolkit FCXTREND file > >gets larger and larger. I can't seem to figure out how to "trim" this > >file, so that (perhaps) only a few weeks or months data is kept > >(depending on the system's purpose). How is that done? > > You can just remove the oldest part of the file by using > - either COPYFILE with the 'FROM nn' option (means you temporarily > need disk space for both the original and the new file) > - or XEDIT (no additional disk space needed since the original file > can be erased before writing the pruned one back, but the original data > must fit into the machine's virtual storage). > Since I no longer have access to 'my' VM systems I cannot provide an > actual EXEC for doing it automatically, but the implementation is easy. > > However, the above methods are crude insofar as they don't distinguish > between the different trend record types: one might want to delete the > detail records for specific users and/or I/O devices after just a few weeks, > but keep others a bit longer, and delete the records with summary system > data only after several years. So I have since written an FCXTREND > MODULE for a colleague who asked for such a facility. The module > allows specifying the rules for deleting specific types of trend file > records > in an FCONX TRDPRUNE control file. > > If you're interested I'll ask him to send you the package for testing, and > if there's a general need it could also be made available on the download > page. However, while I wouldn't mind maintaining the code, analyzing > and fixing bugs without access to a z/VM system can be very tedious, > so better assume you have to use it 'as is'. > > Eginhard Jaeger > ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265
