VIC control statement

The VIC control statement specifies whether IMS Index Builder issues the DBRC NOTIFY.UIC command to turn off the IC NEEDED flag.

The VIC control statement works with the following types of indexes:
  • Primary index of HIDAM
  • Secondary index of non-HALDB
  • PSINDEX
Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagramVIC NOYES,udata
VIC
Specifies that this is a VIC statement.
NO
IMS Index Builder does not issue the DBRC NOTIFY.UIC command.
YES
IMS Index Builder issues the DBRC NOTIFY.UIC command.
udata
Specifies the UDATA parameter of the NOTIFY.UIC command. The maximum length of the string is 64 characters.
For example, you can specify this statement in the following form:
VIC   YES,IIU.UIC
If the VIC statement is not specified, NO is the default.
Tip: You can override the default value in the runtime parameters module. See the explanation of the IIURDFLT VIC entry in Defining runtime parameters.