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RID Reuse

RID reuse accumulates ranges of unused RIDs from deleted records during a KEYSTATS run, which is performed automatically during the daily old record deletion process for NDBs such as the Alert History File. By reusing RIDS, free space in the VSAM cluster is also reused.

Note: Do not reorganize NDBs when RID reuse is active.

You can find the messages in the log output from an $ALERTH daily purge by looking at the purge or delete time for the file in the Customizer Parameter group (/PARMS), and then locating that time in the log using the T hh.mm command.