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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 18, 2021

REORG needs to be enhanced to separate processing for partitions having dictionaries and no dictionaries

Using LISTDEF there are 4 partitions selected to be reorged.


Row length 2284 bytes

KEEPDICTIONARY used


PART 5 - CARDF 50M, dictionary

PART 6 - CARDF 60M, dictionary

PART 11 - CARDF 110M, dictionary

PART 80 - CARDF 150,000, no dictionary


Since PART 80 does not have a dictionary and all PARTs are being reorged in the same invocation of REORG, PART 5,6,11 rows are uncompressed. This causes added MIPS and increases the DASD requirements for SORTDATA.


I am proposing REORG splits the processing into two runs. Partitions with dictionaries and Partitions without dictionaries.


Run 1 - Part 5,6,11

Run 2 - Part 80

Needed By Quarter