Actually, I think there are a few things in the positive column for UV, as
there are a few for UD, but the ability to manually interfere with the
contents of indexes isn't one I'd put on that side of the ledger.

If you want to be sure that indexes are updated every time something is
written, even if the record doesn't normally appear to have changed, then
add a trigger on the file which updates a timestamp field that you otherwise
ignore.  That way UniData will always think that the record has changed and
will always evaluate any indexed fields and update the indices.

Cheers,

Ken

Simon Lewington wrote:

> "Piers Angliss" ...
> >
> > <quote Simon Lewington>
> > What would be great is if Unidata provided a facility to
> > update an index in a file programmatically. </quote>
> >
> > If I recall correctly, Universe implements indices as Type
> > 25 data files, so UV could support this
>
> Yep - definitely one to put in the plus column for Universe on those
> periodic "UV/UD - which is best" discussions.
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