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IOADLD – Load IOA Access Method File Contents

The IOADLD utility is used to load the contents of an IOA Access Method file from a sequential file previously created by the IOADUL utility.

Note: All file-related activity of the relevant product must be stopped before this utility is run:

This utility is typically used to migrate an IOA Access Method file to another DASD volume. In this case, perform the following steps:

  1. Run the IOADUL utility to unload the IOA Access Method file data component’s records to a sequential data set.
  2. Allocate and format a new IOA Access Method file on a new DASD volume using the IOADBF utility.
  3. Run the IOADLD utility to reload the IOA Access Method file data component records from the sequential data set previously produced by the IOADUL utility.
  4. Run the appropriate index rebuilding utility to rebuild the IOA Access Method file index component, based on the contents of the data component:

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IOA Utilities