<html><body><p>Both products, Omnidex from DISC and Superdex from Bradmark, can be integrated into PH using the TPI interface (Third Party Indexing). <br><br>These products catalog their own indexes. I'm foggy if they are stored external to the db or in the db. Their function is are called from PowerHouse, usually Quiz or QTP, using a key sequence which invokes a data selection interface. Specific env vars are needed to enable calling the TPI, such as HPTYPEAHEAD and I believe at least one var for the specific vendor, and maybe another to indicate to PH that TPI was enabled. The vendor's XL also had to be added to the XL list or PATH or something like that. It's been at least 15 years - all of this is now foggy. <br><br>For the DISC product the calling key sequence invoked the Omnidex command line where the user specified search criteria. The command line prompts and parms were invisible to the Quiz/QTP parser.<br>Once the selection is entered the TPI package does its thing invisible to the ACCESS stmt processing by redirecting data reads to the data returned by the TPI vendor.<br><br>The TPI enhancement was documented in the 7.2x doc set.<br><br>Good luck.<br><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=8FBBF50DDFFFE0E08f9e8a93df938690918c8FB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for "Ken Langendock" ---04/22/2016 04:53:22 PM---Anyone out there still using Turbo Image on the HP3000?"><font color="#424282">"Ken Langendock" ---04/22/2016 04:53:22 PM---Anyone out there still using Turbo Image on the HP3000?</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">"Ken Langendock" <Ken@Langendock.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">"'Powerhouse List Server'" <powerh-l@lists.sowder.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">04/22/2016 04:53 PM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">TURBO Image users, help</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">powerh-l-bounces+michael.cousins=ca.ibm.com@lists.sowder.com</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><font face="Calibri">Anyone out there still using Turbo Image on the HP3000?</font><br><font face="Calibri"> </font><br><font face="Calibri">Does anyone know how to enhance the indexes on turbo image?</font><br><font face="Calibri">The application I am using is ALL detail datasets…what a PITA.</font><br><font face="Calibri"> </font><br><font face="Calibri">I heard there is something out there that can let me create unique indexes on this database. Superdex or Omnidex or something else.</font><br><font face="Calibri"> </font><br><font face="Calibri">If all else fails I can always move the data out to KSAM data files.</font><br><font face="Calibri"> </font><br><font face="Calibri">Ken</font><tt>--<br>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =<br>Mailing list: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com<br>Subscribe: 'subscribe' in message body to powerh-l-request@lists.sowder.com<br>Unsubscribe: 'unsubscribe &lt;password&gt;' in message body to powerh-l-request@lists.sowder.com<br></tt><tt><a href="http://lists.sowder.com/mailman/listinfo/powerh-l">http://lists.sowder.com/mailman/listinfo/powerh-l</a></tt><tt><br>This list is closed, thus to post to the list you must be a subscriber.<br>Add 'site:lists.sowder.com powerh-l' to your search terms to search the list archive at Google.</tt><br><br><BR>
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