What is a key field in an IMS database?
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Answer / deepak
Key field - used to uniquely identify the records in the
segment
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Answer / bharathi
A Key field in IMS DB of a segment is a field or group of fields which assist in sorting the segment occurrences in ascending order.
This key field is not necessarily to be unique.
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Answer / nagesh
DL/I to maintain segment in Ascending order other than key sequence.
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Answer / s
Key field and sequence field are synonymous. It is used to
access a specific root segment and hence a specific
database record.
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