Reading in a map

[Richard Kreiss]

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> list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth
> Brody
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> Subject: Re: Reading in a map
> 
> Richard Kreiss wrote:
> >  I need to do this to speed up the building of demand index by using a
> > similar auto index.
> >
> > This requires a front end which mimics dxmaint, ixsort to find s similar
> > auto index and then building the command line and using system to create
the
> > index.
> [...]
> > Too bad -j doesn't work when building demand indexes.
> 
> I'm not sure what -j has to do with building indexes, demand or otherwise.
> 
> Perhaps if you were to describe what you are trying to do that dxmaint
> doesn't, we'd have a clearer picture of how to go about it.
> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody

Ken,

Dressier question about being more specific in what I'm considering doing,
my client has complained that it is taking a bit too long for the demand
indexes to be built based on the selection sets that they are using. I felt
that I many of the speed up the build of these indexes by pointing the build
at an automatic index which is using similar keys.

Since one cannot select an input index using just dxmaint, I would need to
build the command line each time as the sorts sequence depends on when my
client's call center needs to do.

A command line may look like this:  

Dxmaint foobar -o1 -im -s this_doc -rf 14,,:20 -e -h "building Index 1"

I need to test whether or not this will actually speed up the building of
these demand indexes. The call center involved is using all 10 demand
indexes to create data sets for their callers. When a caller accesses the
program, he enters a three letter code which points to a file which lists
the index number to be used by the browse window that will list the data set
to be used. This is a case where it would be very nice if the index value
could be a variable. As it is I've had to construct 10 separate lines of
code based on the index value to construct the browse.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
rkreiss at gccconsulting.net