Hello Zoltan,

Indeed, this should be "to reduce the active log TO 8 GB"
In fact, the author also forgot that 8G = 8192 MB   ;-)

Regards,
Maurice van 't Loo

2016-04-12 18:11 GMT+02:00 Zoltan Forray <zforray AT vcu DOT edu>:

> One of my servers has issued backing up the DB and my research points to my
> making ACTIVELOGSIZE bigger than the filesystemsize - 20%.
>
> As I understand it, all I need to do is make the number smaller and restart
> the server, twice.
>
> This document:
>
>
> http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_6.4.1/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/t_act_log_size_decrease.html
>
> is a little confusing since it makes this statement:
>
> *For example, to reduce the active log by 8 GB, enter the following server
> option:*
>
> *dsmserv activelogsize 8000*
>
> Can I safely assume these are simply typos or am I missing something?
>
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