Chapter 5. General Database Management

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  • In “-Region”, specify that INTEG processes regions based on the order specified in the region-list

  • In “-REGION=region, specify that DUMPFHEAD selects regions based on the order specified in the region-list.

Revision V7.0-002 29 March 2022
  • In “BACKUP”, correct the syntax of -NOONLINE; specified that MUPIP BACKUP selects regions based on the user-specified order

  • In “-PROblksplit”, add new section

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  • In “BACKUP”, Indicate that "-B" is not sufficient to indicate a "-BYTESTREAM" backup. It must be at least "-BY".

  • In “-[NO]A[UTORELEASE”, specify that GT.M does not honor MUPIP SET commands even when -AUTORELEASE is set.

  • In “Operations - Standalone and Concurrent Access, remove a redundant and add a reference to the MUPIP Command Summary table.

  • In “SET”, Remove a bullet point about standalone access.

  • In MUPIP Command Summary”, add a new Standalone Access column; correct note about EXTRACT; change -B[YTESTREAM] to -BY[TESTREAM]; change STD[NULLSUBS] to STD[NULLCOLL]; remove SPIN[_SLEEP_LIMIT]

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  • In “SET”, add information about the -[NO]ENCYRPTABLE and -ENCRYPTIONCOMPLETE qualifiers

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  • In “-Database”, remove reference to magnetic tape

  • In “BACKUP”, change "breaking a disk mirror" to "disk mirroring".

  • In “EXTRACT”, remove reference to magnetic tape, add -NULL_IV, and corrections for -SELECT.

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  • In “SET”, correct abbreviations for -SLEEP_SPIN_COUNT and -SPIN_SLEEP_LIMIT.

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  • In “SET”, added the [NO]EPOCHTAPER and -[NO]DEFER_ALLOCATE qualifiers.

  • In “INTEG ”, added a recommendation against running ONLINE INTEG as the same time as MUPIP REORG.

  • In “RUNDOWN” and “FREEZE ”, specified that a successful rundown turns off any MUPIP FREEZE.

Revision V6.2-001 27 February 2015
  • In “LOAD”, added the new ONERROR qualifier and information about automatically detecting file format (BINARY/ZWR/GO).

  • In “EXTRACT”, added the REGION qualifier.

  • In “SIZE” and “INTEG ” , added information about adjacency reporting.

  • In In “TRIGGER”, added information about return status, LGTRIG journal records, and specified that MUPIP TRIGGER -SELECT works even if a multi-line XECUTE string does not terminate with a newline character.

  • In “TRIGGER”, added trigger expression source line limit, the UPGRADE qualifier, and a note about how MUPIP TRIGGER operates within a TP transaction.

  • In “Introduction”, specified that GT.M processes performing read operations can access databases on a filesystem mounted read-only.

  • Added the new “RCTLDUMP” command.

  • Added the new “-Relinkctl” qualifier for MUPIP RUNDOWN.

Revision V6.1-000 01 August 2014
  • In “Introduction”, added a note recommending against runing any GT.M component as root.

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In “BACKUP”, added notes for "Before starting a MUPIP BACKUP".

Revision V6.0-001/1 22 March 1013

Improved the formatting of all command syntaxes.

Revision V6.0-001 27 February 2013
  • In “BACKUP”, added information about the BKUPRUNNING message and added information on the handling of KILLs in Progress and Abandoned Kills during a backup.

  • In “EXTRACT”, added the description of -STDOUT.

  • In MUPIP INTEG, specified the threshold limit of incorrectly marked busy errors in “-MAP” and added information on clearing KILLs in Progress and Adandoned Kills.

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In MUPIP SET, added the description of “-INST_freeze_on_error”.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Operations - Standalone and Concurrent Access
MUPIP
Commands and Qualifiers
BACKUP
CREATE
DOWNGRADE
DUMPFHEAD
ENDIANCVT
EXIT
EXTEND
EXTRACT
FREEZE
FTOK
HASH
INTEG
INTRPT
JOURNAL
LOAD
RCTLDUMP
REORG
REPLICATE
RESTORE
RUNDOWN
SEMAPHORE
SET
SIZE
STOP
TRIGGER
UPGRADE
MUPIP Command Summary