RE: Duplicating a library.

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

At 02:17 PM 06/29/2000 -0400, you wrote:

With all due respect, I want to go back on this one again.  The best 
performer by far, assuming that the physicals and logicals are in the same 
library is to do save/restore specifying ACCPTH(*YES).

Al


>Actually, the access paths of the logical will be rebuilt, but one record at
>a time (if I understand it correctly).  Does this take more or less time
>over all?  I will leave that answer to someone more enlightened.  However,
>what about changing the logicals in the test environment to *DELAY or
>*REBUILD the access paths so that they only get rebuilt if they are needed
>for testing on that day.  A little longer on the first test run but the copy
>should go faster.  Also, I usually CPYF with FROMRCD(1) so that the system
>does not have to read the physical by key for the copy.
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Denis Robitaille [SMTP:DRobitaille@cascades.com]
>Sent:   Wednesday, June 28, 2000 9:48 AM
>To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:        RE: Duplicating a library.
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>Assuming that the library is stable (the sources of the PF and LF do not
>change much), you could do the following:
>
>Instead of the save/restore, create a CL that do a CPYF of all the PF form
>the production to the test library. This way, you avoid all the file
>creation and all the access path rebuild.
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>Denis Robitaille
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