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Control > Maintenance > Maintain (Apex/Summit)

The Control > Maintenance > Maintain command checks and makes the state managed by Apex consistent when it has been corrupted (usually by outside tools). This command displays the Maintain dialog box.

Maintain always checks the directory structure and verifies the existence of required files. All inconsistencies are displayed in an Output window.

For example, Control > Maintenance > Maintain can repair the version-control state of a checked-in file whose UNIX file permissions have been changed; executing the command restores its permissions to be read-only.

This command is also used to release locks placed on files by Apex/Summit. This is described in detail in the Command Reference.

Maintain Dialog Box Fields:

Objects Field

The objects list field displays the objects names or view names that maintenance is to be performed on. Use the Object input field to add or remove object names.

Maintenance Check Boxs

Version Control Check Box

Abandon Unreachable Check Box

Selecting this check box specifies that the reservation on checked-out files is to be abandoned if the view containing the checked-out file does not exist or is otherwise unreachable. This option is used in conjunction with the Version Control Maintenance checkbox when maintenance is being applied to history information in a subsystem.

History Field

Enter the history name in the history field to specify the version-history family within the version-control database to check. The default value all makes the command check all history families. For each version-history family specified, the command checks all files associated with that family that exist in the closure specified in the file locator.

Command Line Interface: maintain

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