[Info-vax] OpenVMS - DCL - Data entry filtering

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-03-28 17:53:45 +0000, David Froble said:
> 
>> What type of application will be creating 10,000 or more files each 
>> day, and, after created, what is done with the files?
> 
> I've encountered OpenVMS sites with that many log files from ftp 
> operations, some with transaction-related files, sometimes outbound mail 
> messages, all sorts of things.  (More than a few of these folks should 
> probably switch tactics here, but... excuses are made.)  Ten thousand 
> files is a little better than one a second, though most have traffic 
> rates that aren't that smooth.
> 
> Having five and ten thousand active network connections in parallel, and 
> having connection rates of five thousand network connections a second 
> aren't particularly unusual in larger (usually non-OpenVMS) configurations.
> 
> 

When talking about files, I usually assume meaningful data files.  Yes, 
I'm aware, not everybody has the same needs.

As for things such as FTP logs, I don't know if there is a switch, but 
there should be a switch telling FTP to quietly kill the log if there 
are no errors.