Ed,

LASTING GLOBALV is normally cleared of duplicate entries at IPL CMS time.  For 
them not to be cleared, could there be undisplayed characters making them 
unique?  An Explicit GLOBALV INIT should also clear the duplicates.  Other than 
that, the duplicates could be being created by the SQL SVM itself in some sort 
of loop.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed 
Zell
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 2:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Huge LASTING GLOBALV file for DB/2 servers


We are running DB/2 for VM 7.4 on z/VM 4.4 at service level 0501.

Today I noticed that the LASTING GLOBALV file on all three of my servers is 
HUGE.  (SQLPROD's is 47,000+ lines and 276 blocks)  It is full of the same 
settings over and over again.  For example:

SQL/DS  "DBNAME"SQLPROD
SQL/DS  "RELEASE;7.4.0  
SQL/DS  "WORKUNIT"YES   
SQL/DS  "QRYBLKSIZE"8   
SQL/DS  "PROTOCOL"AUTO  


In the PROFILE EXEC of the machine, we do 

   SQLINIT DBNAME(SQLPROD) PROTOCOL(AUTO)

which I understand will set up these variable in LASTING GLOBALV. This 
particular virtual machine is shut down each night before 
2nd shift and logged off and then back on so the PROFILE and SQLINIT
do get executed at least once a day.   

In looking at the LASTING GLOBALV file, there are many lines with

  SQL/DS  "RELEASE;7.1.0  and   SQL/DS  "RELEASE;7.4.0  

so that tells me this has been going on a long time and I am just now noticing 
it.  We did convert from 7.1 to 7.4 in October of 2006 but it appears to have 
been growing like this since we installed z/VM 4.4 back in October of 2005 
(although I can't be certain).

Has anyone else seen something similar to this by chance?  I am 
wondering if this is related to SQLINIT and is a DB/2 problem or if it is a 
problem with  GLOBALV ... SETP.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Ed Zell
Illinois Mutual Life Insurance
(309) 674-8255 x-107
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