The Directory contains Optim™ objects such as Access Definitions, Archive Collections, Table Maps, Column Maps, Legacy Tables, Optim Primary Keys and Relationships, Compare Definitions, Environment Definitions, and Retrieval Definitions. For example, you can use a Batch Utility control statement to copy Access Definitions modified by a specific user in order to create a set of identical Access Definitions with different names. Other Batch Utility control statements allow you to delete or rename Optim objects.
The Directory also contains Archive File entries that make it possible to search, restore, or browse data in Archive Files and Archive log entries that record archiving activity. Batch Utility control statements allow you to create or delete Archive File entries or change the index information for an entry. You can also delete Archive log entries. Control statements that can be used to maintain objects and Archive entries in the Directory and the functions of the control statements are: