Re: Physical and Logical File Reorganizing Questions

Just the physical. The command is Reorganize Physical File Member (RGZPFM).

On 1/5/06 04:25 PM, "Brian Piotrowski" <bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi All,
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> When I'm performing a reorganize on files, do I need to do it on both
> the physical and logical files, or only on the physical file?
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> Let's say I have three files in the system:
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> ABC123 - PF (1000 records)
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> ABC123A - LF (250 records)
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> ABC123B - LF (95 records)
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> I deleted 50 records out of ABC123 (950 records remaining).  Of those 50
> records deleted, 25 of them were also in ABC123A and 5 records were also
> in ABC123B.
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> Two questions:
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> 1) If the same records were contained in the LFs (as indicated by 25 and
> 5 respectively), will they be updated by having the records deleted out
> of them as well?
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> 2) If #1 is yes, do I need to perform a reorganize on the logical files
> too?
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> The reason I'm asking is that we have several physical files (and many
> more child LFs) that need to be pruned every few months or they hog disk
> space like crazy.  I'm going to rewrite our quarterly batch job to clean
> up these files, and I want to ensure that all files will be cleaned.
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> Thanks!
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> Brian.
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