Defining archive pools and archive subpools

Overview

Each archive pool definition requires an archive subpool definition that has the same archive medium and the same archive retention period as the archive pool. To ensure this, Adabas Audit Data Retrieval automatically requests the definition of a matching archive subpool when you insert a new archive pool definition.

Optionally, you can insert additional subpools after having defined the archive pool and the first archive subpool. The following applies to these additional subpools.

  • The subpool may use any archive medium.
  • The archive retention period of the subpool may be the same or lower than the archive retention period of the corresponding archive pool, but not longer.

Note

This section contains a procedural description of how to define archive pools and archive subpools. For more information on the fields you have to specify in these definitions, see these sections:

Defining a new archive pool and subpool

To define a new archive pool and the first subpool:

  1. From the Primary Selection Menu, choose option A.1.
  2. Enter selection criteria in the displayed panel.

    This displays a table containing all matching archive pools.

    If there are no matching archive pools, this will display the Archive Pool Definition panel. In this case, proceed with step 4.

  3. Enter line command I in front an archive pool definition.

    This will display the Archive Pool Definition panel.

  4. Enter the required values in this panel (see panel description in "Archive pool definitions") and press ENTER.

    This will display the Archive Subpool Definition panel.

  5. Enter the following in this panel:
    • The archive medium
    • A value between 1 and 99 indicating which archive subpool should be tried first, second, etc. when reloading; use each value only once for the subpools of one archive pool.

    This will display the Archive Subpool Definition panel for the specified archive medium. The fields in this panel will vary slightly depending on the archive medium. You can find their descriptions in:

  6. Enter values in the displayed panel and press ENTER to save your changes.

Defining additional subpool for existing archive pool

To define additional archive subpools for an existing archive pool:

  1. From the Primary Selection Menu, choose option A.1.
  2. Enter selection criteria in the displayed panel.

    This displays a table containing all matching archive pools.

  3. Enter line command A in front of the archive pool definition.

    This will display a table containing all archive subpool definitions of this archive pool.

  4. Enter line command I in front of any archive subpool definition.

    This will display the Archive Subpool Definition panel.

  5. Enter the following in this panel:
    • The archive medium
    • A value between 1 and 99 indicating which archive subpool should be tried first, second, etc. when reloading; use each value only once for the subpools of one archive pool.

    This will display the Archive Subpool Definition panel for the specified archive medium. The fields in this panel will vary slightly depending on the archive medium. You can find their descriptions in:

  6. Enter values in the displayed panel and press ENTER to save your changes.

Error message "Duplicate Key" when defining an archive pool

When you define an archive pool, the following values must be unique:

  • Combination of archive-medium, archive retention period, and owner

    To ensure that there is only one best-matching archive pool for each list, the combination of archive medium, archive retention period, and owner must be unique.

If the error message "Duplicate Key" is displayed when you define an archive pool, press PF1. This will display the name of the archive pool definition which already uses this combination.

Error message "Duplicate Key" when defining an archive subpool

When you define an archive subpool, the following values must be unique:

  • Reload order (all archive subpools of this archive pool)
  • Prefix for dataset name (all archive subpools of all archive pools)

    To ensure that the names of archive datasets are unique, each prefix may only used once.

If the error message "Duplicate Key" is displayed when you define an archive subpool, press PF1 to display information on the definition which already uses this key. 

PE97AS15 ------------------------------------------------------ Duplicate key
 Command ===> _________________________________________________________________

 Insert Archive Subpool Definition

 Archive Pool Name : QI#O004 Archive Product : B97
 Archive Media Name : ODISK Archive Pool Owner : CUST001

 Subpool is active ===> YES (Y)es,(N)o
 Order for Reload ===> 2. (1-99)
 Archive Retention Period ===> 03660 (1-36500) Days
 Compress Index ===> YES (Y)es,(N)o
 Prefix for Data Set Name ===> BETA97.ARCHD4...................

 Unit ===> /F010...
 Expiration Date 98000 ===> No_ (Y)es,(N)o

 Storage Class ===> ________
 Data Class ===> ________
+--------------------------------------------------+
| MEIRD017 - ADSI002: ADSDSNP=BETA97.ARCHD4 |
| (ARCPOOL=QI#D004 , ARCPROD=B97, ADSORDER=00003) |
+--------------------------------------------------+

In this example, the prefix BETA97.ARCHD4 is rejected because it is already used in the archive pool definition QI#D004 (ARCPOOL=QI#D004), namely in the archive subpool definition that has the value "Reload Order = 3" (ADSORDER=00003).