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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
May. 04, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Debra J. Benjamin-Deckert, San Jose, CA (US);
Lawrence L. Law, Saratoga, CA (US);
Terri A. Menendez, Richmond, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to perform an update on a base data set in a record-oriented file system, wherein one or more affected records within the base data set are modified by the update. Affected alternate index (AIX) records corresponding to the affected records are located, and individual record-level locks are acquired on each affected AIX record. Each of the affected AIX records is updated according to the update after acquiring the individual record-level locks on each of the affected AIX records.