Missing .OV files (AREV Specific)
At 25 MAY 2006 10:40:47AM Robert Wilsie wrote:
During some normal house keeping of our AREV3.12 system I noticed that several Rev files in an attached directory had a .LK file but no .OV file. There were several files like this including : SYSVIEW, SOURCE, SYSRELATIONS amongst others. Should I be concerned about this ? If so how would I go about creating the .OV for the file.
Thanks .. Robert Wilsie
At 25 MAY 2006 01:47PM Gerald Lovel wrote:
AREV may or may not create the .OV branch of a table when creating the .LK; if the table is empty, the .OV will be missing. If the OS files for AREV are copied to a new directory using COPY or XCOPY without the /e parameter, zero-length files will not be transferred. So if the .LK contains data but the .OV does not, the .OV goes missing. If it is missing, AREV creates the .OV as soon as an overflow frame is demanded.
Gerald
At 25 MAY 2006 07:44PM Warren Auyong wrote:
v3.x will create the .OV files as needed.
v1.x and v2.0x will give you errors if the .OV files do not exist. I don't know about v2.1x. In those versions just COPY or XCOPY with the /e option an existing .OV of zero length to the target REVxxxxx.ov.
At 26 MAY 2006 10:33AM Ralph Johler wrote:
I have made new .OV files to replace missing ones when arev had issues with this in the past. Find any empty OV file (zero bytes). Copy that empty .OV and rename to REVnnnnn.OV to match the REVnnnnn.LK table that is missing it's OV.
If you are having problems, and need to make OV's I recommend testing it with one first before you do dozens or more times, as this was quite some time ago.