ARSMAINT DOC Expiration Issue

[Jaydeep Mehta]

HI All,

After the Document Migrated successfully , I am running the arsmaint expiration command based on internal date ,  using below command .

arsmaint -I CMOD  -u xxxxxx -p xxxxxxxxxx  -g AG   -t 14607 -c -n 10 -x 10.

it is running fine and not getting any error but it is expired only few doc not expiring all the document , even the  doc load present in retr  directory .

Below are dir listing .

cd  /arscache1/CMOD_PRD/retr/DIA/DOC

lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  3FAAA -> /arscache3/CMOD_PRD/14622/DIA/DOC/3FAAA
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  2FAAA -> /arscache3/CMOD_PRD/14607/DIA/DOC/2FAAA
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  2FAA1 -> /arscache3/CMOD_PRD/14607/DIA/DOC/2FAA1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  1FAAA -> /arscache3/CMOD_PRD/14607/DIA/DOC/1FAAA
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  1FAA1 -> /arscache3/CMOD_PRD/14607/DIA/DOC/1FAA1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  3FAA1 -> /arscache4/CMOD_PRD/14622/DIA/DOC/3FAA1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAAA -> /arscache4/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAAA
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAAE -> /arscache5/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAAE
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAAD -> /arscache4/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAAD
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAAC -> /arscache3/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAAC
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAAB -> /arscache5/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAAB
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAAI -> /arscache3/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAAI
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAAH -> /arscache5/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAAH
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAAG -> /arscache4/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAAG
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAAF -> /arscache3/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAAF
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAAK -> /arscache5/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAAK
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAAJ -> /arscache4/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAAJ
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  4FAA1 -> /arscache3/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/4FAA1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  8FAAA -> /arscache5/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/8FAAA
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  8FAA1 -> /arscache5/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/8FAA1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  7FAAA -> /arscache5/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/7FAAA
lrwxrwxrwx    1 cmod     ibm_cmod         39 Jan 17 2013  7FAA1 -> /arscache5/CMOD_PRD/14629/DIA/DOC/7FAA1



Any idea about this why it is not expiring all the doc.

Thanks in advance ..

[Justin Derrick]

Why are you trying to force the cache to be empty?  The entire point of a cache filesystem is to keep the documents around for fast access.  A cache filesystem that isn't 99% full is a waste.  If you don't want this information in the cache (maybe because people aren't accessing it) then reduce the caching period, or turn it off entirely and load directly to your secondard storage (ie, TSM).

From what you've posted, arsmaint has done exactly what you asked.  There aren't any documents in that directory older than the date you've specified in the arsmaint command.

[Alessandro Perucchi]

Cache expiration has its own logic, and it not because it could delete some document that it will really delete the documents in cache.
If you want I can explain the logic behind, or at least what I've learned from the logic. But the idea is that CMOD will delete only what he can in order to achieve the correct min/max pourcentage of the FS.
So it might be that some documents, even after 1 year, are not delete, because CMOD thinks he doesn't need to remove them yet.