Re: Reusing deleted records

Sorry if this is a repeat, as I haven't been following this thread
extremely close, but a customer presented me with a problem this morning
re: Reuse deleted records.  They have a fairly large (1+Mil records)
file with a fair number of LFs that gets a LOT of add/delete traffic. 
They have turned on Reused Deleted Records but it is not working.  They
showed me a page from the manual that indicates there are (unnamed)
curcumstances when the system will not honor the re-use of deleted
records, and their's is not.  The file has more deleted records than
un-deleted ones, and all new adds go to the end of the file.

Can anyone explain?

  Larry Bolhius
  Arbor Solutions, Inc
  lbolhui@ibm.net

Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:
> 
> At 02:31 PM 9/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >Does this affect journalling (rollbacks, ect.)
> 
> No.
> 
> The only major adverse effect of REUSEDLT(*YES) is if you have a program
> that reads the file sequentially (possibly for performance), and assumes
> that record n+1 was written chronologically after record n.
> 
> A more minor point is if you have applications that add, and then delete,
> records.  This is not a common application design.
> 
> Al.
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