I did, at a previous employer, have access to a RGZLIB command. This reorganised all of the physical files in a library and made for a much more convenient purge. Unfortunately, this is ont a system supplied CL command and my current emplyer doesn’t have it.

So I wrote my own version.

RGZLIB is a simple command that will reorganise all of the physical file members in a selected library. Depending on the size of the library to be reorganised (and the size of the files in that library) this process can take a while to run, so I strongly suggest that you submit the command to batch.

My original plan was to write this in RPG and include some additional file clean-up options. However, it turns out that there is no API to retrieve a list of files in a library so the program, as it stands, is a very simple CL affair. If I do code up the additional functionality, I will put it into a seperate command to avoid over-complicating things.

As ever, the source is available on GitHub and you are free to browse or download it from there.