That would be a nice feature, but, at least on my Tivoli ADSM V3 server, doing a couple of volumes (about 5 gig out of 15 in use) had no effect on reported % utilization whatsoever. cheers, wayne
Seay, Paul wrote, in part: > One of our TSM Support Staff members went to the advanced class and was led > to believe you could get some reorg benefits doing the following > > Define New DB Volumes whereever you want them. > Perform DELETE DBVOLUME commands on each of the existing DBVOLUMEs > one at a time which causes the data to be moved. > > Our DBVOLUMES are on ESS disk so they are not mirrored. Thus, the delete > causes a move of all the current data to other volumes. > > Has anyone ever heard of doing this to get some reorganization benefits? > If so, were the benefits, mild or significant? > > I would not be surprised if massive filespace deletes could be recaptured by > doing this.
