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Lightning X™
By definition, IMS Fast Path data entry databases (DEDB) provide high-performance, fast data access, and high availability. Fast Path DEDBs support business applications that cannot afford an outage—such as credit card processing, automated teller machines, and airline reservations. If these systems are not available, even for a short amount of time, the cost to your business can be excessive.
Secondary indexes, as an alternate access path, are not natively supported for Fast Path DEDBs. Lightning X offers you this alternative. With Lightning X you can build indexes for Fast Path DEDBs, allowing data to be accessed quickly and efficiently.
What can secondary index implementation do for you?
Using secondary index database processing provides you with the following benefits:
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Processing time is reduced for scan or browse operations because the index contains only a portion of the data in the source database |
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Using this alternate processing sequence does not disrupt the primary processing sequence defined for the primary database |
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Transaction throughput is increased |
Lightning X lets you create secondary indexes for your Fast Path DEDBs with the database offline, providing a set of easy to use utilities to build, verify, use, and maintain the indexes.
Key Features
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Implementation is simple and straightforward |
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Compatibility with the NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. Eclipse Reorganization Utilities provides you with the ability to: |
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—Build secondary indexes during database reorganizations |
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—Image copy the secondary index
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Compatibility with existing market products that build secondary indexes for Fast Path DEDBs allows for easy migration without loss of data or database availability |
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Includes a convenient utility that quickly disassembles the DBDs and ACBs for DEDBs so that you can display the source |
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