From: Denys P. Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]>


>The CIUPDATE is not a Delete/Put.  It is an update.

Consider my blunder on CIUPDATE corrected...

Joe

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>Kind regards,
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>Denys. . .
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Joe Geiser [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:   Friday, November 21, 1997 9:15 PM
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>Subject:        Re: FW: Image question
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>From: Phil Anthony <[log in to unmask]>
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>>I would think that the high-water mark would stay the same, but the
>>delete chain would be really, really long.  You can repack or reload the
>>data set to lower the high-water mark.
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>Exactly - as (I believe) Ken Paul stated earlier - the HWM dosen't move and
>the delete chain would be rather long.  After PUTS and DELETES - as well as
>CIUPDATES (which, in essence do a DELETE/PUT), a detail repack would be in
>order every now and then.  For databases I use, even though they are
>crash-n-burn for the most part, I have an Adager job which does this for
>details I'm working with - the frequency depends on how many times I have
to
>test with a dataset.
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>Best,
>Joe
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