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CTDDIP – Delete Pages from CDAM Files and Delete Index Values from Index Files and DB2 Global Indexes Database

The CTDDIP utility enables you to delete pages in CDAM files that are associated with specific Control-D reports. If the pages are deleted by an index, the corresponding index values can be removed from the index file and the global index database as well. The utility determines which report pages and index values should be deleted, based on the selection criteria in the input stream data. Only page level main indexes are supported.

The CTDDIP utility can be used to irreversibly delete confidential data in all copies of a report, and from its index files. The utility uses special characters to override the data to be deleted.

The CTDDIP utility works on Control-D reports that are located in the Active and Migrated User files.

The utility handles

The CTDDIP utility processes migrated files when the last migration stage has produced DASD media. It processes migrated files regardless of whether the CTDDELRP utility has already executed. The CTDDIP utility does not process the files created during previous migration stages, but these files can be deleted by the CTVCLMIG utility.

Regardless of whether the CDAM pages will be deleted by reference from specified report entries and indexes, you should expect that the pages will not be available by reference from

WARNING: The results of the utility are irreversible. For this reason, BMC recommends that you first run the CTDDIP utility in TEST mode before running it in PROD mode.

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Control-D and Control-V Utilities