Re: SAVRSTLIB

Roger Boucher wrote:
> 
> This is perhaps a bit off the thread here, but I have a job running each
> night that copies our Production data library to a Production Test
> environment's data library, thereby refreshing it each night with
> yesterday's production data.  I threw together a quick CL that does a
> CLRLIB followed by a CPYLIB.  This process is beginning to take too
> long.  Can anyone help me with the best (quickest) way to accomplish
> this... besides getting into SAVACT.  I hope the answer isn't SAVACT but
> I'll accept that if it is.
> 
> :-)
> Thanks for your help.

We have done the same thing in the past.  Couple of suggestions;

1) don't delete the files & re-create them.  The creating & deleting
large numbers of files causes LOTS of system overhead.

2) Write a CL program that does a CPYF FRMRCD(1) FMTOPT(*NOCHK) for each
physical file.  This is much quicker and can be run while the files are
in use.  If there are too many files write a query that creates a list
of them in a PF and run the CPYF command for each file.

3) Run this in batch (Especially if you have server machine) and make
sure the job has plenty of memory.  If you have a multiple CPU system
split the Job up otherwise just process them one at a time.

4) You may be able to set the access path Maintenance to *DLY if most of
the files are not going to be used for testing in a given day.  This
will not work on uniquely keyed files however.

5) If you have logicals built over very large files you may wish to
consider deleting them (in the test Library) before the copy and
recreating them after.  Sometimes this makes a big difference -
sometimes it doesn't

HTH

John Hall
Home Sales Co.
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