VISTA Plus for MPE Administrator's Guide

Server Administration for Windows Clients
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Step 6  Index Folders for VISTA Plus for Windows MPE
If you are installing VISTA Plus for Windows MPE for the first time, follow the procedure given
here to create the demo folder.
To create the demo folder:
1. Create a spoolfile to view:
:FILE DEMORPT;DEV=LP,1
:LISTF @.PUB.NETBASE,2;*DEMORPT
2. Run the NBSPool program:
:RUN NBSPOOL.PUB.NETBASE
3. Create the DEMO VISTA folder:
VSAVE DEMORPT;FILE=DEMO.ARCHIVE.NETBASE;INDEX;LIMIT=999,100000
4. Exit NBSPool.
Each report captured by NBSpool must be indexed to create a line table required by VISTA Plus for
Windows MPE. This entails adding the ;INDEX option to each VSAVE command that has been
defined in your report collection job streams. The index option reads a report’s page table, and
stores page and line offsets in the VISTA Plus database. This information is used when reports are
viewed by a client. The following is an example of using the VSAVE command to index reports:
VSAVE RPTMFG10;FILE=MFGRPTS.ARCHIVE.PROD;APPEND;INDEX
When a report is indexed, records are added to the VISTA Plus database. The datasets updated are
FOLDER-DOCS, RPT-FLD-LINK and LINE-INDEX. The dataset LINE-INDEX will have the
most records added.
Before executing the indexing process described in the next section, you should verify that the
datasets have enough empty space to retain the records to be added. User your favorite database
maintenance program (e.g., Adager or DBGENERAL) to check these databases.
Dataset Algorithm to compute records to add:
FOLDER-DOCS One record for each unique report name in a folder.
RPT-FLD-LINK One record for each report stored in a folder.
LINE-INDEX One record represents 64 pages. If a report contains 6400 pages, then
100 records will be added to this dataset.