Use the Console’s GUI System Editor to define a Search-Definition. The search and match strategy used in the clustering process is defined by selecting the appropriate search options.

The IDT cannot be clustered unless data has been loaded into it. To start the Table Loader utility, select the

System

Load IDT

button.

Click the

Tools

Run Clustering

button. Select the search to use and specify names for the output report(s) to be generated. An "all clusters" report contains single-member clusters (

Singles

), as well as multi-member clusters (

Plurals

). You may want to generate reports containing only Singles or only Plurals. Specifying a report file name for a particular option enables report creation for that option. A report is not created if the file name is left blank.

Maximum DB Size

Select the maximum database size for this static clustering. The default is 32 GB. Note that the created database will not allocate the chosen amount of disk space but the size will grow as required.

Maximum Sort Memory

Select the maximum amount of memory to be used by SSA-SORT. The default is 1 GB.

Maximum Cache Size

Select size of the memory cache established by SSA-DB. The default size is 1 GB.

The clustering process can only be stopped in between the steps or during the cluster phase itself, not during other steps such as loading keys, sorting, etc.

This can be useful if you want to stop the clustering process before it finishes. Hence, you can view the intermediate results and assess its performance.

The

Finalize Step

button will be enabled once the clustering process starts. Click the

Finalize Step

button causes clustering process to finalize and execute next step which is post job process, so that you may view the intermediate results of clustering.

Once the clustering has completed, you may view the cluster report using the

Tools

Report Viewer

, or right-click the report file name in the list of Job output files in the log viewer.