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Static and Dynamic Selection

There are two kinds of access path selection available under i OS: static and dynamic.

Static selection is permanently built into the access path of the i OS logical file so that the logical file only contains the records that meet the selection criteria.

Dynamic selection is not stored in the access path, but is applied to each record as it is retrieved.

You will use dynamic selection in this tutorial.