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> From: M. Lazarus
>
> >they changed all of the Access path size from *MAX4G to *MAX1TB in all
> >keyed files and logicals files, they were told by IBM to do this because
> >the data from some database monitor jobs showed high contention for keys.
> >
> >What has been your experience with these two issues?
>
>   I know of a shop that did the access path change en masse and
> experienced
> *terrible* performance degradation.  EVI's are only better in certain
> circumstances.  It is not an across the board panacea.

I'm a bit confused here.  What's the relationship between *MAX1TB and EVI?
I thought EVI (Encoded Vector Index) was a special kind of index and you had
to do some magic to enable it.

>From what I understand, EVIs are only helpful when the number of used key
values is a small number of the possible values.

Joe



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