RE: ReBuild Access Paths

Mike,

There's at least 3 ways that I know to do this:

1) Submit a job to open each of the logicals, thus forcing each to be
rebuilt.  The CL OPNDBF command is sufficient for this.  The rebuilds will
occur in this batch job.

2) Change the access path maintenance parameter for each of the logicals,
first to *REBUILD, then back to *IMMED.  It's been a long time since I tried
this, but I _think_ the rebuilds take place in the QDBSRVxx system jobs.

3) Restore the logicals along with the physicals.  The rebuilds will take
place in the QDBSRVxx system jobs.

To do 1 or 2 programmatically, I'd use DPSFD FILEATR(*LF) to an outfile to
build a list, then use RCVF to read through it and do either the OPNDBF/CLOF
or the CHGLF.

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Naughton [mailto:mnaughton@juddwire.com]

Hi everyone,

Is there a way to tell the system to rebuild access paths? We have a test
library, which contains copies of production data files (physicals and
logicals). Periodically, we like to refresh the data from the production
system, and the fastest way seems to be to use our backup tape to restore
the prodution library into the test library. However, when we back up, we
don't save access paths, so the restore doesn't put them into the test
library. I know after the restore is done I can run programs to open the
files and rebuild the paths that way, but is there a way to rebuild all
the paths without having to go through this?
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