Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-10-13 Thread regalitare
age- From: Allen Egerton To: U2 Users List Sent: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 10:21 am Subject: Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue Were these files by any chance copied/moved from their original location? The headers to the file, (at least in Universe), create pointers to the hysical disk location of the

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-10-13 Thread Colin Alfke
We came across this a few years back when moving and copying files at the OS level (usually copying the data file but not the associated index). What's even easier than creating a dummy index (especially on a large file) is to simply copy another files index (X_smallfilename) to your working file

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-10-13 Thread Allen Egerton
Were these files by any chance copied/moved from their original location? The headers to the file, (at least in Universe), create pointers to the physical disk location of the indexes, and if you move the file without adjusting those pointers, you can have all sorts of fun issues. On 10/13/2011

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-10-13 Thread regalitare
om: Wally Terhune To: U2 Users List Sent: Fri, Sep 9, 2011 7:36 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue NO. was mostly trying to point out that you need to be specific about what perations you have done regarding index refreshing. 'rebuild' is unspecific. For logical integrity

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-09-09 Thread Wally Terhune
, September 09, 2011 5:20 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue Am I understanding you correctly Wally that if an index becomes corrupted for any reason the index is to be deleted, then recreated, and THEN rebuilt? And in a related question, am I understanding you to

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-09-09 Thread Kevin King
Am I understanding you correctly Wally that if an index becomes corrupted for any reason the index is to be deleted, then recreated, and THEN rebuilt? And in a related question, am I understanding you to say that an index cannot (should not) be rebuilt without being deleted and recreated?

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-09-09 Thread Wally Terhune
o:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 11:57 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue Thanks Wally. In this situation we suspect that the index was rebuilt while some users had the file open (via SB+ cached file buffers) and those

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-09-09 Thread Kevin King
hune > > U2 Support Architect > > Rocket Software > > 4600 South Ulster Street, Suite 1100 ..Denver, CO 80237 ..USA > > Tel: +1.720.475.8055 > > Email: wterh...@rs.com > > Web: www.rocketsoftware.com/u2 > > > > > > > > -Original Message- >

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-09-09 Thread Wally Terhune
-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 9:09 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue What can I get you Wally? We did a CREATE.INDEX WO SHOP.CODE NO.NULLS followed by BUILD.INDEX WO SHOP.CODE.

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-09-09 Thread Mecki Foerthmann
237 ..USA Tel: +1.720.475.8055 Email: wterh...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com/u2 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 5:42 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2]

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-09-08 Thread Kevin King
---Original Message- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: > u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 5:42 PM > To: U2 Users List > Subject: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue > > We have a customer on Unida

Re: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-09-08 Thread Wally Terhune
-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 5:42 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue We have a customer on Unidata 7.1.22 running the Prelude application. They have an index on a field in a file that looks like this: Top

[U2] Unidata 7.1.22 Index Issue

2011-09-08 Thread Kevin King
We have a customer on Unidata 7.1.22 running the Prelude application. They have an index on a field in a file that looks like this: Top of "SHOP.CODE" in "DICT WO", 9 lines, 82 characters. *--: P 001: V 002: EXTRACT(@RECORD,110,2,0) 003: 004: Shop Code 005: 2L 006: S 007: 008: SHOP.CODEýýEXTRACT(