Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

1341.0. "OA$LOG_TO_FILE function, mailbox size" by USHS09::REINDL (The Duckbilled Platypus has no Navel) Tue Sep 01 1992 22:18

    
    
    	This is a wish! Could a couple of logicals, or ALL-IN-1 system
    symbols, or whatever, be created, which specify the message size and
    quota for some of the VMS mailboxes which ALL-IN-1 creates? The example
    below (which happens at a customer site) might help explain why this
    might be a neat feature.
    
    	The OA$LOG_TO_FILE function logs information on what users are doing
    in ALL-IN-1, on a system, to a file. To do this ALL-IN-1 writes the user
    stuff to a VMS mailbox which is periodically dumped to a file. Well on
    a large system, with say 200 concurrent users, the mailbox needs to be
    rather large to avoid loosing information. When ALL-IN-1 creates the
    mailbox it uses the system defaults (specified by the SYSGEN parameters
    DEFMBXBUFQUO, and DEFMBXMXMSG) for the mailbox message length and
    quota, so they have to be set very large. Having the system parameters
    that large causes all mailboxes using defaults to get created that large.
    Of course that consumes lots of resources, some of which other
    processes don't need (or maybe want). Just look at the mailboxes for
    a user's ALL-IN-1 main and sub-process and you get the idea. (I know
    that there's really no need to use the sub-process with the new V3.0
    features  ;-)  it's just an example).
    
    	Does anyone think this could be done as a patch or as part of some
    future unannounced and unspecified release??
    
    Henry
     
    

    Henry,
    
    Official Support is done using SPRs, this notes-file is more of an
    unofficial channel and does not guarantee anything.
    
    if your customer wants this to be considered for inclusion in a
    possible future release then see note 10 in this conference.
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks