/sys$common/syshlp/EDFHLP.HLB  —  INVOKE
    This command prompts you for a script and initiates your choice.
    The scripts guide you through the design and optimization of a
    data file to ensure that complex operations are completed in a
    logical fashion. If a script is aborted, script operations and
    calculations are discarded, except for clearing the previous
    definition. All scripts assume that the files you are desiging
    reside on a Files-11 disk.

 ADD_KEY

    Modeling and addition of a new index's parameters. See
    documentation under the "INDEXED" script for more information
    about the design modes used in this script.

 DELETE_KEY

    Removal of the highest index's parameters.

 INDEXED

    The Edit/FDL utility asks several questions and then enters a
    graphical design mode that allows modeling of the file indexes.
    Two such modes are available: Line_plot and Surface_plot modes.
    These refer to the type of graph on which the Edit/FDL utility
    will display its calculated design choices. The basic goal of
    these plots is to allow you to choose the best trade-off between
    index bucket size versus index depth. While many of the other
    file parameters have a significant effect on file performance,
    these two are the most important.

    o  Line_plot - This design mode uses a graph that responds to
       adjustments in the file design parameters. The current values
       of the parameters are shown at the bottom of the screen and
       you set them to new values to see their effect on the depth of
       the index.

    o  Surface_plot - This design mode will graph a surface that
       indicates index depth versus bucket size versus one other
       parameter, which is swept through a range of values. The
       choice of the 'other parameter' which is swept through a range
       is: Load Fill Percent, Key Length, Record Size, Initial Load
       Record Count, and Additional Record Count.

       To aid in selecting an optimal bucket size for a particular
       value of 'other parameter', a Recommended Range is delimited
       on the surface plot. Bucket size values within this range
       should provide a reasonably good trade-off between a flatter
       index (less I/O) and larger buckets (more RMS processing).
       Depending on your terminal's capabilities, the Recommended
       Range is delimited either with "/"s on either side or by
       the lightest or green shading. The left-most edge of the
       Recommended Range will produce the flattest file for a given
       bucket size, but if you're not very sure of the real-life
       accuracy of all the answers given about the application
       environment, it is better to be more conservative and choose a
       value somewhere closer to the middle of the Recommended Range.
       The default answer to the bucket size question is equivalent
       to the left-most edge of the Recommended Range.

 OPTIMIZE

    This script is basically a Redesign of a particular index, with
    the additional feature of using actual file structure data. The
    ANALYZE/RMS_FILE utility can gather the required statistics
    with the DCL ANALYZE/RMS/FDL command (which produces an FDL
    file containing Analysis_of_area and Analysis_of_key Primary
    sections).

    The /ANALYSIS=file-spec qualifier of the DCL EDIT/FDL command is
    used to input that information into the Edit/FDL utility.

 RELATIVE

    Selection of parameters for a Relative file

 SEQUENTIAL

    Selection of parameters for a Sequential file

 TOUCHUP

    This script allows the modification of one index's parameters at
    a time. Only those FDL attributes pertaining to the chosen index
    are changed. See documentation under the "INDEXED" script for
    more information about the design modes used in this script.

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