Re: Reusing deleted records

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:45 PM 9/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
>
I have used this function a bit (less than a lot, but more than just
playing) and I have never seen it not work.

Note than when the file is opened, the system develops a "deleted record
map".  This is an internal table of available deleted records to be re-used
by RR number.  If another application subsequently deleted a record, the
first application is not aware of the newly deleted record.

Please send me information as to look on where it will not work.

Al




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