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· Jan 6, 2017

What is the best method for copying Mappings and Routines?

#Databases #Globals #Mapping #Namespace #OpenVMS #System Administration #Caché

Currently, we have an application running in one namespace ("Database B") that has globals and routines mapped to another database ("Database A"). After enforcing clean up on Database A, we found that 90% of the disk is free. We would like to compact Database A and release the unused space. However, we are running OpenVMS, which seems to be the issue.

For databases consisting of only globals, we are able to use ^GBLOCKCOPY; however, we need to ensure that the routines and mappings are also copied.

What would be the best recommended way to do this?

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Pete Greskoff · Jan 6, 2017

You could use the 'List' queries in Config.MapGlobals, Config.MapPackages, and Config.MapRoutines, match those to the database that you are copying from, then change those specific mappings to the new database. Here is an example that will change mappings for routines in the USER namespace from the USER database to the TEST database:

s startdb = "USER"
s enddb = "TEST"
s ns = "USER"
s rs=##class(%ResultSet).%New()
s rs.ClassName="Config.MapRoutines"
s rs.QueryName="List"
s sc=rs.Execute(ns) 
If 'sc Do DisplayError^%apiOBJ(sc) Quit
  while rs.%Next() {
   if (rs.GetDataByName("Database")=startdb) {
   s Properties("Database")=enddb
   d ##class(Config.MapRoutines).Modify(ns,rs.GetDataByName("Routine"),.Properties)
   } 
}
  d rs.%Close()
  q
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Jenna Poindexter · Mar 23, 2017

Mack

It seems to me that your real issue is that your database is taking up too much space on disk and you want to shrink it.  To do this you really don't need to create a whole new database and namespace.  Even on non VMS systems before we had the compact and truncate functions I used to compact databases using GBLOCKCOPY which is pretty simple.

1.   Create a new database to hold the compacted globals

2.   Use GBLOCKCOPY to copy all globals from the large database to the new database you created in step 1.  Because routines are stored in the database they will be copied as well.

3.  Shutdown (or unmount) the original database and new compacted database

4.  Replace the huge CACHE.DAT file with the new compacted one.

5.  Remount new compacted database.

Global and Routine mappings are stored in the cache.cpf file and are related to the namespace configuration and not the database configuration.  After completing this process the database will be compacted and global/routine mappings will be preserved.

And of course, you shouldnt do any of this without a good backup of your original database.

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