Question

cpyf problem

AS/400, CPYF, i5 520, V5R4

Hello,

we have the following problem:
in August 2007 we bought an i5 520 with V5R4.
The i5 should be much faster than the old machine, because the hardware is much bigger than the old hardware.

We copied the software from the old machine (V5R2) to the new i5.

The programs are all working fine but:
if i make a simple cpyf from a file testpf to another file test2pf it lasts
30-40 minutes.
on the old machine the cpyf lasts less than 10 minutes.

(there are no triggers or other jobs using one ot the files above)

any ideas ?

Hi,

How big are the files that you're copying? Are they journalled?

How many disks did you have in the old machine and how many in the new machine?

It may be that you had lots of smaller disks in the old machine which would spread the load of a large copy operation across the disks - your new machine may only have a couple of (larger) disks which means the machine is unable to spread the load so well. I've recently noticed the same thing on a new machine. You should be able to see how many disks you have and how bust they are using the WRKDSKSSTS command.

Regards,

Martin Gilbert.