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There are cases where the actual order (the sequence of arrival) of records
is important. Depending upon a particular system's design, this may be
critical or not. In your case it sounds like it is not. I have always felt
that the default is to protect the cases where it is critical (erring on the
side of caution).

I have heard that the leaves of your indexes can get messy when there's a
lot of deletion activity (as in your case) and records are reused. Of
course, a monthly or less regular reorg might be in order to manage that. I
have heard no other down sides. In fact, at many installations I have seen,
the default has been changed to REUSEDLT(*YES). I've never seen it be a
problem.

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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"I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make
it short."
-- Blaise Pascal
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Subject: Reuse vs. Reorg

We have a file that is somewhat dynamic. Records are generated, they
are
kept for awhile, some are deleted, others are generated, and so on.
The
deleted records increases by about 100,000 per day. We run a reorg
once a
week to get the deleted records back. I had thought about changing the
file to reuse deleted records to minimize the need to do reorgs. Is
there
any downside to this? My boss thought that if the default for files
was
*NO then there might be a reason that we wouldn't want to do it. This
isn't a file where we would want/need to reactivate the deleted records.
It would be easier to restore from a backup or just regenerate them.
Thoughts?


Dave Parnin
--
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN 46571
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