Independent ASP Considerations for Text Search Collections

IASP considerations for a text search collection.

Text Search Collections may be created in an Independent Auxiliary Storage Pool (ASP) environment with the following restrictions:

1. If an Independent ASP Group is associated with the current thread, then the collection must reside on an ASP in the independent ASP Group. It is not possible to administer a text search collection in the system ASP or a basic user ASP while the thread is set to an Independent ASP group. It is possible to search a collection that exists in the system ASP or basic user ASP, however because that index cannot include data on the Independent ASP group, only objects that are accessible when the ASP Group is *NONE will be included.
2. A text search collection can index any objects visible from the ASP Group Namespace of the collection.
3. If an object set includes objects that exist within the namespace of the ASP group, but not on the group itself, significant indexing time can occur if the Independent ASP Group is moved to another system. For example: If a collection is created on Independent ASP 33 to index all spool files on the system, and the ASP group is switched to a different machine, then all spool files from the old machine not in the ASP group will be removed from the index, and all spool files on the new machine not in the index will be added.