Suprtool works quite well with Omnidex keys.

If the 'key' in question is keyword indexed,
doing a CHAIN DATASET, OMNIKEY = "VALUE" pulls up
everything (not case sensitive)that call

You can also do CHAIN DATASET, OMNIKEY = "VALUE@"
to retrieve everything that starts with a value.

You can even use tricks like finding all values > than
a specific key, as in
CHAIN DATASET, OMNIKEY = ">VALUE"

It turns out to be more flexible than you would guess
from reading the available literature. Either by design
or accident, it works very well!

Omnidex is faster than you would think, too. I was
surprised how fast I could completely reindex my entire
data base  (took hours, I was expecting tens of hours)
Adding keys doesn't seem to slow things down all that much
(assuming you have plenty of memory, so the indexes
update in memory.)




-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Darnell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:18 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Chain vs. IF - No Results!


I should have been more clear -- I don't believe the CHAIN command will look
at the Omnidex index for the stated field - Omnidex keys (keyword or sorted)
are not chains.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Darnell
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 3:15 PM
> To: 'Jeff Mikolai'; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: Chain vs. IF - No Results!
>
>
> Then I'd have to say that the chain command will not work
> because there is no Image chain on that field.  Suprtool
> should let you retrieve by the Omnidex key, though.  I cannot
> remember the command.
>
> Based on the performance numbers reported by Suprtool, the
> 'IF USER-ID="ISMS4066"' option may well be taking advantage
> of the Omnidex key, but I can't tell for sure....
>
> Was there a reason for not wanting to use the 'IF
> USER-ID="ISMS4066"' method?
>
> -dtd
>

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