RGZPFM Question

["Mike" <mshaw2456@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,

 

Over the holiday one of our developers deleted 20,000,000 records from a
physical file as they were no longer needed.  This HUGE physical file ( even
after 20 M records deleted) has 19 logicals built over it.  On Sunday
morning, a scheduled job ran (which was not planned), that did a RGZPFM over
this mess.  The end result was that it put an 870 8-Way running SMP on it's
knees for 13 hours.   No matter what I tried, I could not get the
IDX-<access path name> running under QDBSRVxx jobs to ease up.

 

I did find the following Knowledge Base document (after the fact):

 

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/ce197905697c4c6086256a4f007978f7/17
bb5f5d63273150862565c2007ce9e5?OpenDocument

 

Now for my $64 K questions:  Had I used the EDTRBDAP command, could I have
put the active access path rebuilds on hold?   Would the active IDX entries
have to have completed before the *HLD entries would have taken effect?   I
am trying to understand how I could have got this under control in the least
amount of time.

 

Any and all comment appreciated.  Thanks!

 

Mike Shaw