Creating Distributing Files
A distributed file is created using the CREATE-FILE command with the qualifier TYPE=DISTRIB. This will create two files, a dictionary which is a Hash4 (currently fixed at mod3) and the distributed file stub. If desired, the dictionary can be resized using the
jrf utility.
For example, the following command creates a distributed file called DISTREGION:
jsh DEMO ~ -->CREATE-FILE DISTREGION TYPE=DISTRIB
[ 417 ] File DISTREGION]D created , type = J4
[ 417 ] File DISTREGION created , type = DISTRIB
The file partition table is empty at this point, and the partition algorithm is set to the default
system partition method with a delimiter of ‘-‘ (i.e. all record IDs must be of the form
"PartNumber-recordID"). These aspects of the distributed file can be
changed with the create-distrib command.
Distributed Files
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