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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IMS Database Manager
Categories General DB
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 25, 2014

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CLEANUP.RECON keyword to not delete ALLOC records with no DEALLOC time

It would be useful to have a keyword for the CLEANUP.RECON DBRC command that would cause it *not* to delete ALLOC records that don't have a DEALLOC time, even if the ALLOC record is older than the RETPRD specified. Similar to how there currently is a LASTIC keyword, which controls whether or not the last IC for a DBDS is deleted.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 16, 2014

    There are a number of precautions DBRC takes prior to allowing this situation. An ALLOC record is useless for recovery if there isn't an older IC that can be used for the recovery base. There are warning messages that are put out indicating that there are no ICs for the DBDS. The user also has control over the age of the data that will be cleaned up by the CLEANUP command. With all of this protection if we encounter an ALLOC such as this, it is assumed to be a candidate for deletion. We have seen so many customer RECONs with obsolete records in them and the CLEANUP command is designed to take care of them.

    Another alternative is to run CLEANUP on a copy of the RECON first and evaluate the output.

    Dear Derek:

    Thank you for submitting this IMS enhancement request.

    After a comprehensive review, we regret to inform you that we have determined that at this time this request will not be a candidate for inclusion in an upcoming release because it is not consistent with the product purpose.  Hence, we have rejected this request.

    We appreciate your input to the IMS development team.

    Sincerely,
    Pat Schroeck

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