Internal DASDL Dialog Box

Use the Internal DASDL dialog box to define or modify the definition of population and packs for structures in the following categories:

To display this dialog box, click the Browse button in the Internal DASDL Options property under the DASDL category for Segments.

Set the definitions for the structures in each category using the Internal tab, the ROC tab, and the HDBA tab. These tabbed pages contain the following fields:

Property

Function

Pack

Specifies the pack for the selected structure.

By default, this property is set to different values for different structure. Refer to the following table for more information.

Population

Specifies the number of entries for the selected database structure.

By default, this property is set to different values for different structure. The numbers range from 0 to 268435455. Refer to the following table for more information.

Population Increase

Specifies the percentage by which the population increases if it exceeds its limit for the selected database structure.

By default, this property is set to 0. The percentage ranges from 0 to 100.

Display Population Increase

Specifies whether to display a message when an automatic population has occurred.

By default, this property is set to True.

Population Warning

 

Specifies the percentage of the population at which a warning message is issued for the selected database structure.

By default, this property is set to 0. The percentage ranges from 0 to 99.

Display Population Warning

Specifies whether to display a warning when the population reaches the percentage of the set limit.

By default, this property is set to True.

Structure

Lists the database structures contained in the selected category (Internal and ROC). Refer to the following table for more information.

For each selected structure, the corresponding Population, Population Increase, Population Warning Pack, Extended, Sections, and No Fine Table Lock attributes are displayed and allowed to be changed.

By default, this property is set to GLB-HUB.

Extended

Specifies whether to enable the use of the DMSII EXTENDED option.

By default, this property inherits its value from the parent property on the segment.

Sections

Specifies the number of sections. The Extended property must be set to True.

By default, this property is set to 0. The numbers range from 0 to 255.

The sections are ignored for GLB-DIALOGINFO and GLB-GLIOFFINFO.

No Fine Table Lock

Specifies that Fine Tables will not be locked during a delete operation and deleted set entries will not be removed. In order to physically remove entries, a garbage collection must be performed using either the Visible DBS GARBAGE COLLECT command or the Enterprise Database Server REORGANIZATION program.

For additional information about online garbage collection or reorganization, refer to the Enterprise Database Server Utilities Operations Guide.

By default, this property is set to False.

The setting of the No Fine Table Lock property is ignored for the sets of GLB-DIALOGINFO and GLB-GLIOFFINFO, and for ROC-O-SSET and ROC-O-HSET.

The following table lists the structures in each category, their corresponding default Population, and default Pack attributes values:

Category

Structure

Default Population

Default Pack

Internal

GLB-HUB

GLB-CRITIC

GLB-SECURITY

GLB-DIALOGINFO

GLB-GLIOFFINFO

AUDITAREA

100000

2048

20000

65536

4000

1024

SYSTEM

ROC

ROC-H

ROC-O

ROC-S

ROC-T

800

5600

8000

99000

SYSTEM

HDBA

GLB_DBSCHEMA

20000

SYSTEM

Setting Internal Structure Property Values

To modify the value of any property for an existing structure, peform the following:

  1. Click the desired Category tab. The structures for that category are displayed in a list.

  2. Click the property you want to change for a structure.

  3. Specify the value for the property.

To reset the value for a particular structure or set of structures to its default, select any structure row and right-click in the column, then select Reset or Reset All from the context menu.