IMS Index Builder 3.1 documentation (April 2024)

IMS Index Builder is an IMS Tools product that helps streamline index maintenance and recovery. The tool creates multiple indexes in one job step and eliminates the need to image copy indexes.

Getting started

• IMS Index Builder overview
• What's new in IMS Index Builder
• Configuring and activating IMS Index Builder
• Product legal notices

Common tasks

• Creating new secondary indexes
• Building a HIDAM primary index
• Building PHIDAM partition primary indexes
• Building HALDB partition ILDS
• Building indexes and ILDSs for IMS catalog databases

Troubleshooting and support

• Gathering diagnostic information
• IMS Index Builder reason codes
• IMS Index Builder abend codes
• IMS Index Builder messages

More information

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