Conversion status determination

 

Shortly after i5/OS^® V5R3M0 operating system or a later release is installed, the conversion to *TYPE2 directories will automatically begin for any of the file systems which have not yet been converted to support *TYPE2 directories. This conversion processing will take place in a secondary thread of the QFILESYS1 system job.

To determine the status of the conversion processing, you can use the Convert Directory (CVTDIR) command as follows:

CVTDIR OPTION(*CHECK)

This invocation of the CVTDIR command lists the current directory format for the "root" (/), QOpenSys and UDFS file systems and if the file system is currently being converted. Additionally, it lists the current priority of the conversion function, the file system currently being converted by the system, the number of links that have been processed for that file system, and the percentage of directories which have been processed for that file system. The system starts the conversion function with a very low priority (99) so that the conversion function does not significantly impact system activity. However, you can change the priority of the conversion function by using the *CHGPTY value for the OPTION parameter of the CVTDIR command. See CVTDIR for additional information about this parameter specification.

Because the QFILESYS1 job is processing the conversion, you can display the QFILESYS1 job log for messages indicating any problems with the conversion. Additionally, various progress messages are sent about the file system conversions. These messages include information such as: the file system being converted, the number of links which have been processed in the file system, the percentage of directories that have been processed in the file system, and so on. All of the error and many of the progress messages are also sent to the QSYSOPR message queue. Therefore, for future reference, it is good practice to ensure that the QHST logs or QFILESYS1 job logs are preserved, which contain these messages. After the file systems have been fully converted, and the integrated file system is working as expected, you can delete this historical information.

 

Parent topic:

Conversion considerations

 

Related information

Convert Directory (CVTDIR) command