RCVOPT parameter

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Recovery options

Summary

Default value
0
Parameter type
System
Where set
On User 0's parameter line
Related products
All
Introduced
Model 204 V6.1 or earlier

Description

The recovery options

Valid settings of RCVOPT are (options can be summed):

SettingMeaning
X'01'Checkpoints are taken.
X'08'Roll forward information is logged into the journal stream.
X'20'Do not flush the dirty pages in a file that does not do pre-imaging (FRCVOPT X'20' set) during a subtransation checkpoint. This bit only has an effect in Model 204 7.6 and later. One use of this setting would be to set FRCVOPT X'20' in a file used to hold SirFact dumps which can get quite large. This would prevent a large SirFact dump from causing a subtransaction checkpoint to take a very long time. While this could result in a SirFact dump being lost if the system crashes, this is probably not that big a deal so the risk is probably well worth the benefit of faster subtransaction checkpoints.