Re: Reclaiming Delete Record Space....

[James Turnbull <jamest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I think you will find, with all due respect to Al's knowledge, that it is
mostly
correct.  Though I did not clearly explain as I should have.  Rather than
SAVOBJ
and RSTOBJ you use CPYTOTAP and CPYFRMTAP.  I use this method almost every
weekend to remove deleted records from a file we do not have enough disk
space to
RGZPFM.  Apologies for the confusion.

James Turnbull
AS/Tech Consulting

Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:

> At 10:09 AM 9/4/98 +1000, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >Terry Herrin wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:12:03 -0700 , you wrote:
> >> >Is RGZPFM the only way you can remove delete records from a physical
> >> >data file or can it be accomplished via some save restore process too?
> >>
> >> Well, you could always do a CRTDUPOBJ DATA(*NO) to create an empty
> >> file with the same structure, then do a CPYF to copy the records to
> >> the new file.  After the copy is done, delete the original file and
> >> move the new file into it's place.
> >
> >Save file to tape, delete and restore.  Deleted records won't be
restored to
> >file.
> >
> With all due respect, I believe this answer is incorrect,
>
> Al
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