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What is the purpose of a secondary index in IMS?

April 26, 2017IMS index purpose Secondary

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What is the purpose of a secondary index in IMS?

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A secondary index is an alternate path into you IMS database. Fields from an IMS segment are put together to form a key into that segment. A secondary index file may be used as a file itself to get pertinent data.