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The data management can handle files with many more deleted records than live records but it is not the best practice.

For random indexed access, not much of a performance hit, but any sequential processing will be affected. All those deleted records are skipped through. You application does not see them but the DB manager reads through the dead space.

First thing to do is change the file to REUSEDLT(*YES). This will stop the file from growing and it will start filling in the deleted space.

CHGPF FILE(LIB/FILE)
REUSEDLT(*YES)

I like to have a program that runs at startup of the system that performs maintenance. You make sure the program is owned by QSECOFR and runs under *OWNER profile. This program can have both the CHGPF FILE(LIB/FILE) REUSEDLT(*YES) and the RGZPFM FILE(LIB/FILE) RBDACCPTH(*YES)

This will purge the deleted records from the file and help with sequential processing performance. It will also release a lot of storage being used to hold all of the deleted records.

With 74 million active records, this will take a while to run and re-index. Depending on your hardware, it can be a couple of hours, to only a few minutes.

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On 2014-06-29, at 5:34 PM, Peter Connell <Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Huge file of 74 million rcds has 301 million deleted records and several
logical files.
Can data management really handle this with little performance impact if
there are regular additions/deletions?


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