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When to Use

REORG is best used with areas that contain large amounts of data. For small areas, use the normal BACKUP and LOAD functions of the CA Datacom/DB Utility (DBUTLTY).

Note: If you are partitioning by some portion of Native Key, running a REORG DTFNAME=*,INNUM=n (where n is the number of partitions) gives the current way to break up the data set.

You can use the REORG function to do a parallel backing up of an area in Native Key sequence. A reporting only option is also available, if you use REORG OPTION2=BACKUPONLY and either DTFNAME=* or DTFNAME**. For information about DTFNAME=, see the list of Required Keywords.