International Business Machines Corporation

Sahadev Dey

Vijay S Patil

Amit Patra

Rajneesh Kumar

Vishal Anand

Rajiv Sundaramurthy

A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for restoring data. The restoring of the data to a storage system from a storage medium is initiated by a computer system. Changes to an amount of space available in the storage system to restore the data are identifies by the computer system, while the data is being restored to the storage system. A restoring of the data to the storage system is placed on hold by the computer system when an amount of space needed to complete restoring the data is greater than the amount of space available to restore the data.

Automated data restore

An approach is provided for monitoring disk utilization at an object level. At a first time a first size of an object in a System i computing platform is determined by calling an application programming interface (API). At a second time a second size of the object is determined by calling the API. A difference between the first and second sizes is determined. The difference is determined to be greater than a threshold. Based on the difference exceeding the threshold, an alert is sent indicating growth at the object level rather than at an auxiliary storage pool level. The API is called to obtain the sizes of libraries in the System i computing platform. Differences between the sizes of the libraries at a user-entered start date and the current time are determined and presented. A report including the differences is generated and sent.

Disk utilization analysis

An approach is provided for monitoring disk utilization at an object level. At a first time a first size of an object in a System i computing platform is determined by calling an application programming interface (API). At a second time a second size of the object is determined by calling the API. A difference between the first and second sizes is determined. The difference is determined to be greater than a threshold. Based on the difference exceeding the threshold, an alert is sent indicating growth at the object level rather than at an auxiliary storage pool level. The API is called to obtain the sizes of objects in an integrated file system in the System i computing platform. Differences between the sizes of the objects at a user-entered start date and the current time are determined and presented. A report including the differences is generated and sent.

An approach is provided for monitoring disk utilization at an object level. At a first time a first size of an object (i.e., integrated file system or library) in a System i computing platform is determined. At a second time a second size of the object is determined. A difference between the first and second sizes is determined. The difference is determined to be greater than a threshold. Based on the difference exceeding the threshold, an alert is sent indicating growth at the object level rather than at an auxiliary storage pool level. Sizes of System i libraries are monitored at multiple dates and stored in a repository. Sizes of the libraries at user-entered start and end dates are retrieved from the repository. Differences between the sizes of the libraries at the start and end dates are determined and presented.

An approach is provided for monitoring disk utilization at an object level. At a first time a first size of an object in a System i computing platform is determined by calling an application programming interface (API). The object is an integrated file system object or a library that includes other objects in the System i platform. At a second time a second size of the object is determined by calling the API. A difference between the first and second sizes is determined. The difference is determined to be greater than a threshold. Based on the difference exceeding the threshold, an alert is sent. The alert indicates the object had a growth in size that exceeds the threshold and indicates the growth at a level of the object, which is different from a growth at a level of an auxiliary storage pool in the System i platform.

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