Process Number: 58	Revision Date: 11/7/2001 3:37:00 PM
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Datatel File Maintenance

Office Responsible:

DCS - District - Computing Services

Process Type:

internal

Position Title:	Datatel System Administrator		Author:	Technical Director
Cross Trained Staff:	BNoble/JMoody/MTran	Manager:	DHarris	Vice Pres.:	RTemple

Timeline (Deadlines or Time-Constraints) :

Weekly/After-hours/No Users Logged in

What must be done before this process is started:

All users logged of the system (ie no one accessing the databases)

Which processes are waiting for this process:

Source documents or communication with information needed for this process:

What is the end-result of this process, or the hand-off

Database files with proper modulo/overflow file sizes. Minimize the potential for broken files.

What steps must be taken independent of the computer system (Manual Process)

Which steps must be taken on a computer (Electronic Process):

Process launched as a CRON job, on Sunday mornings. Processes: WEEKLY.UNIDATA.FILE.ANALYSIS (aka WUFA), DATATEL.RESIZE.FILES Old Datatel Documentation: Datatel File Maintenance guide At the unix prompt enter (guide ) and 3 or 4 files are created in the current directory. GUIDE_STATS.LIS, GUIDE_ERRORS.LIS, GUIDE_ADVICE.LIS should always be created. If a fourth file, FIX.UPDAT, is created serious problems exist in the file being tested and Datatel should be called immediately. FILE.STAT At the Unidata prompt enter (FILE.STAT ) and file statistics for this file will appear on the screen. WUFA can be run on 1 or any number of files. Create an active select list of the file to be run and then run WUFA.

Related Documents to Process (e.g. Datatel documentation, Government code books, etc.)

Datatel Database Maintenance Manual

Notes (Cautions, suggestions for improvement, etc.)