Commands and Responses
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ALTER CATALOG
ALTER CATALOG
The ALTER CATALOG command changes the configured attribute values of the 
catalog process that affect the management of online and audit dumps.
Command Syntax
For information on the tokens present in the command and response buffers, see the 
SPI Programming Manual. 
Tokens in Command Buffer
ZTMF-MAP-Alter-Catalog
is an extensible structured token that contains fields for specifying the attributes of 
the catalog process that are to be changed. This token is required; only one 
occurrence is allowed. This token contains the following fields:
ZRetainDepth
specifies the number of online dump generations that remain in the catalog for 
file recovery. Each generation is an instance of an online dump that provides a 
point from which the file recovery can start; if three dumps were made of the 
same set of files, the first dump would constitute the first generation, the 
second dump would be the second generation, and so forth.
The range of values for this field is from 1 through 99; the value of ZTMF-VAL-
ResetWord is 3.
Command
ZTMF-CMD-Alter
Object Type
ZTMF-OBJ-Catalog
Tokens in Command Buffer
ZTMF-MAP-Alter-Catalog                                      
def ZTMF-DDL-Alter-Catalog.
  02 ZRetainDepth             token-type ZSPI-DDL-Int.
  02 ZReleased                token-type ZSPI-DDL-Boolean.
  02 ZRoundRobin              token-type ZSPI-DDL-Boolean.
   end.
Tokens in Response Buffer
None.