eglamkowski's Journal: just shoot me now

So, I'm trying to run some jcl jobs for work, but the amount of data involved is very large. I knew before I started that the /data/in partition needed 500 gigs, and I had that much available on it. The output is going to /data/out2 and that had 500 gigs available on it, so I went ahead and ran the job.

About 4 hours later there's I discover it uses /data/out1, which didn't have enough disk space, so the job failed for lack of disk space. out1 started at around 400 gigs, but apparently it needs 500+ gigs.

Ok, I take care of that, then run it again. Another 6 hours later I discover there's ANOTHER partition involved, /data/uber, that ALSO needs a good 500+ gigs available. Damnit, how much fsking disk space does this bloody job need? Is 2 terrabytes going to be enough already? Are there other partitions involved I don't know about yet?

And of course, every single person who could help me identify files to delete is either out of town or out of country.

And this might not be such a big deal, but I have 3 other jcl jobs that need to be run after this, one of which will also require 2 terrabytes of disk space to run, and all these jobs take like 10-20 hours to run, and then there's an 8 hour database load, and it was SUPPOSED to be going into production before the start of business Monday. So much for that.

And the job I've been trying to run all damn day today was a job that was supposed to be done by Friday, but one of the DVDs we got with the data on it was bad so we had to have them resend it, so we lost a day there on top of losing all of today.

Somebody just shoot me now, please.

ouch

[stoolpigeon]

i feel your pain.

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[nizo]

Yeah. Plus JCL??? Wow I haven't even heard that word for over 15 years. Whoohoooo jobcontrollanguage.

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[eglamkowski]

I didn't run the stuff, I just run it. And I've only been running it for just over a month now, and never had a clusterfsck like this before. The 20 hour job finished, then I got a 1.5 hour job in there done, now for a 37 hour job. This one damn well better have enough disk space - I'm gonna kill someone if it runs out of diskspace 30 hours in...

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[eglamkowski]

That made no sense. I meant: I didn't WRITE the stuff, I just run it.
*sigh*

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[stoolpigeon]

we knew what you meant - and don't blame you for being frazzled.