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Auditing Methods

CA IDMS/DB Audit has two methods of auditing:

• Standard audit
• QuickCheck audit

Standard auditing examines your application databases and data dictionary for all types of physical integrity errors. Although Standard auditing is the most comprehensive, it requires numerous I/Os and potentially long processing times.

QuickCheck is a much faster processing alternative for detecting common physical integrity errors. QuickCheck requires significantly fewer I/Os and less CPU time because it does not walk every set occurrence to detect errors. Instead, during area sweeps QuickCheck creates pointer extract records that are then sorted. If CA IDMS/DB Audit detects any mismatched pointer extract records, it then walks only those sets that are in error. Finally, errors found by QuickCheck are reported and most can be corrected using the same fix parameters specified in Standard auditing.