The TEMPLATE command maintains a set of -REGION and -SEGMENT qualifier values for use as templates when ADDing regions and segments. When an ADD command omits qualifiers, GDE uses the template values as defaults.

GDE maintains a separate set of -SEGMENT qualifier values for each ACCESS_METHOD. When GDE modifies the ACCESS_METHOD, it activates the appropriate set of TEMPLATEs and sets all unspecified qualifiers to the template defaults for the new ACCESS_METHOD. Use the GDE SHOW command to display qualifier values for all ACCESS_METHODs.

The format of the TEMPLATE command is:

T[EMPLATE] -R[EGION] [-REGION-qualifier...]
T[EMPLATE] -S[EGMENT] [-SEGMENT-qualifier...]

The TEMPLATE command requires specification of an object-type.

Example:

GDE> template -segment -allocation=200000

This command modifies the segment template so that any segments ADDed after this time produce database files with an ALLOCATION of 200,000 GDS blocks.