How to re-build a user-owned index when the member record requires a restructure which will change the key.
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Issue/Introduction
Re-building restructured user-owned indexes with a user-written program calling IDMSTBLU can be problematic because after the restructure, the member records are in the new format but the index is built according to the old format. This limits the extent to which the restructured database can be used to generate the necessary calls to IDMSTBLU.
Environment
Release: 19.0
Component: CA IDMS
Resolution
If you need to re-build a user-owned indexed set, you must write a program which calls program IDMSTBLU and passes the required descriptor records to it, so that the remainder of the MAINTAIN INDEX utility can perform the task of rebuilding the indexes. This procedure is documented in the MAINTAIN INDEX section of the documentation.
If the member record is being restructured such that the layout of the symbolic key of the user-owned index is changing, then the process needs more consideration.
The subschema name passed in the subschema descriptor must define the set according to the restructured data - the "new" subschema. Therefore, the layout of the member record passed in the member descriptors must also match the record layout as defined in the restructured (new) subschema.
This means that the user-written program must be written to run against the restructured database, but the problem here is that at that point in the process, the user-owned indexed sets are structured according to the old database. Therefore, the user-written program cannot access the index. It must sweep the area for the member records, and use OBTAIN OWNER in order to read the owner records and generate the necessary IDMSTBLU calls with the owner descriptors.
Article 9599 contains a sample front-end program to accomplish this.
If your user program must access the user-owned index, one other possibility is to write the user-written program such that it runs against the un-restructured (old) database, but then also make the same changes in storage to the member record layout that the restructure does, before passing it on in the IDMSTBLU call.
Remember, it is mostly irrelevant which database the user-written program runs against. What is important is that the layout of the data passed to IDMSTBLU in MEMBER-RECORD must match the restructured data as defined in the new subschema.
Additional Information
For more information, see the documentation section MAINTAIN INDEX and scroll to the heading Maintaining user-owned indexes.
Article 66653 documents the procedure to perform the restructure.
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