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Restoring Alternate Indexes

Alternate indexes are automatically redefined and rebuilt (by invoking the BLDINDEX facility of IDCAMS) when CA Disk restores a base cluster that had alternate index associations when it was archived. You can bypass the alternate index define and/or rebuild in 1 of 3 ways:

• By specifying NOAIXDEF and NOBLDINX on the Restore command
• By specifying AIX=NO on the DSCL Recover command
• By specifying AIX=DEFINEONLY on the DSCL Recover command

In addition, sysparms VSAIXDEF and VSBLDINX can be specified with a value of N to force CA Disk to bypass alternate index processing as a default. For example:

Archive a base cluster and all of its alternate indexes:

FIND DSN=clustername
ARCHIVE DISP=RECAT

Restore a base cluster and rebuild all of its alternate indexes automatically:

RESTORE DSN=clustername

Restore a base cluster and rebuild two of its alternate indexes explicitly:

RESTORE DSN=clustername,NOAIXDEF
RESTORE DSN=clustername,AIXNAME=alternateindex1name
RESTORE DSN=clustername,AIXNAME=alternateindex2name

Recover under DSCL example:

RECOVER AIX=YES