Creates and initializes database files using the information in a Global Directory file. If a file already exists for any segment, MUPIP CREATE takes no action for that segment.

The format of the CREATE command is:

CR[EATE] [-R[EGION]=region-name]

The single optional -REGION qualifier specifies a region for which to create a database file.

Note that one GT.M database file grows to a maximum size of 224M (234,881,024) blocks. This means, for example, that with an 8KB block size, the maximum single database file size is 1,792GB (8KB*224M). Note that this is the size of one database file -- a logical database (an M global variable name space) can consist of an arbitrary number of database files.