I have a job schedule entry that automatically runs a "DSPOBJD *ALL/*ALL *ALL OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) OUTFILE(yourlib/DSPOBJD)".
I have it run every Friday and the file DSPOBJD takes up about 35 meg on my system. Which isn't bad considering how many uses I get from it.
Sometimes I have a need to check an objects history about five seconds after I have changed it. It might be to see who recompiled a program last, or when a program was last run or accessed, or when a file was changed before today. On occasion I have had a program blow because it can't find an object. I can check the DSPOBJD file to see if the object existed last Friday at the time I regenerated the file.
You can also use it to query or sequel all objects on the system to search the object's text. Something like "select * from dspobjd where odobtx like "%Census%".
I also have a DSPOBJD query that sorts the objects by size in descending order and calculates the total percentage of system a particular objects uses. It looks something like this:
Object PCNT Library Object Object Object Text description
Size Type Attr
1,032,687,616 3.52 QSPL Q04079N005 *FILE PF Spool Data Base File
745,529,344 2.54 QSPL Q04079N001 *FILE PF Spool Data Base File
702,778,880 2.39 QDOC QGZS531676 *DOC
664,100,864 2.26 QSPL Q04079N002 *FILE PF Spool Data Base File
597,782,528 2.04 QSPL Q04079N003 *FILE PF Spool Data Base File
541,114,368 1.84 ATEDTA H50MD *FILE PF Contributions History
533,913,600 1.82 QSPL Q04079N004 *FILE PF Spool Data Base File
508,997,632 1.73 JOURNAL DAILY4204 *JRNRCV Daily Journal Receiver
485,527,552 1.65 LYNCHLIB H50MD *FILE PF Contributions History
411,267,072 1.40 CONSTLIB ELIG003 *JRNRCV Hour Bank Elig Journal
293,752,832 1.00 QSYS Q13F9C0003 *JRNRCV Security auditing jrn
290,516,992 .99 CLAIMSDTA H20CLMMH *FILE PF38 Medical History File
245,857,728 .84 QSPL Q00512N001 *FILE PF Spool Data Base File
221,331,456 .75 CLAIMSDTA H22CLMMH *FILE PF Medical ist
210,464,768 .72 CLAIMSDTA CLMSJR0005 *JRNRCV Claims journal
209,874,944 .71 ASIGPL ADDRES1041 *JRNRCV
171,003,904 .58 CLAIMSDTA H44CLMMH *FILE PF Medical History File
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This was first published in June 2003