IFS Housekeeping

[adam400]

Hi,

Has anyone got any tips on housekeeping the IFS? Ours hasn't been touched for years and is starting to get rather large!

Just wondering on a good place to start!

Thanks,

Adam

[jamief]

Re: IFS Housekeeping

you can run api's or QSHELL commands to delete files not used in XXX days

[vikramx]

Re: IFS Housekeeping

We recently put in a monthly batch job which would do the following to all IFS files which were last accessed over 1 year (using QSHELL commands):-

1.) Add to a zip file on the IFS
2.) Delete the file

Every month, the job runs, the previous month's zip file is deleted. Should someone need it, we can always restore from our tapes (usually they wouldnt need since majority of the files on IFS are reports which can be generated again by calling the respective programs).

[adam400]

Re: IFS Housekeeping

Hi vikramx

Thanks for the advice. That is exactly what I would like to do - set up a monthly batch job to delete old IFS files.

I haven't used QSHELL commands before, please could you help me out in what I would need to put in the code?

[vikramx]

Re: IFS Housekeeping

What we did was a very very simple approach.

1.) Using STRQSH command, we executed the command "FIND <root directory> -type F". Doing would output the file listing to the file overriden to STDOUT. Full paths will be stored by this method.

eg. STRQSH CMD('find /testdir -type f')

2.) Read the flat file and use the Qp0lGetAttr API to get the attributes of the files. Other possible methods we looked at was, DSPLNK and redirect the output to a spool, copy the spool to a PF and then get the attributes (problem was on the no: of spool files generated).

3.) Once the attributes are retrieved, you can apply whatever rules you decided upon to clean em up.

[abercrombieande]

Re: IFS Housekeeping

Save this in a file and just type the name of this file in qsh to run it. Of course you need to change the directory and variables. This backs up files not accessed in the last 13 days into a tar file named as the current date

#GET FILES NOT ACCESSED DAYS
DAYS="13"

#Specify the Top Level Directory path you want to 
DIR="/home/me"


#GET DATE
dt=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
#CREATE TAR
tar -cvf /home/backups/${dt}.tar /dev/null

#Specify the output filename
FILENAME="Files_For_Archiving"
find "${DIR}" -type f -atime +${DAYS} > /home/backups/filelist 
while read LINE
do
echo $LINE
tar -rf /home/backups/${dt}.tar  ${LINE}
#DELETE FILE
# rm  ${LINE}

done  < /home/backups/filelist