User Index APIs - where find REAL reference material?

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to understand and create my own applications using user indexes, but
am relegated to using others' examples, which does not help me understand the
intricacies of the APIs involved.

For example, on the Create User Index (QUSCRTUI) API, I am finding minimal
information on the "Key insertion" and the "Immediate Update" parameters.
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Key Insertion: Whether or not the inserts to the index are by key.  The valid
values are:
     '0'  No insertion by key
     '1'  Insertion by key

Is this asking whether I'll be loading the index in key sequence?  Am I
confusing the term "insert" with "add"?  (as in "inserting" a new entry in the
middle of the index vs. "adding" a new entry at the end of the index)
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Immediate Update:  Whether or not the updates to the index are written
synchronously to auxiliary storage on each update to the index.  The valid
values are:
     0    No immediate update
     1    Immediate update
 Each update to the index is written to auxiliary storage after every insert and
remove operation.

What impact does this parameter have?  In the one application, the UI would be
created and loaded with data.  It would not be updated, i.e., existing entries
modified or entries added or deleted.

Also, on the Add User Index Entries (QUSADDUI) API, it appears that you can add
up to 4095 index entries on one call.  Is this correct?  If so, would you
typically use an array or a multiple-occurence data structure to pass the data?

Those of you who have the answers, where did you learn this?  I certainly have
failed to find out in the IBM softcopy manuals.

TIA,
Dan Bale





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