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IXSCAN

For the IXSCAN operator, the following input arguments are shown:

Access path
The access path (index) identifier.

Scanned table
The quantifier of the table to be scanned.

Columns retrieved
The set of columns to be accessed.

Sargable predicates
The set of predicates to be applied as sargable (that is, that can be resolved by the database manager by simple comparisons rather than by subqueries).

Start predicates
The range-delimiting predicates that provide a starting value for an index search.

Stop predicates
The range-delimiting predicates that provide a stopping value for an index search.

Residual predicates
The set of additional predicates to be applied as residuals.

Prefetch
A flag indicating the type of prefetching. Possible values are:

Maximum pages
The maximum number of leaf pages of the index expected to be read from disk. Possible values are:

Lock intents
The lock modes that DB2 uses to access the data for the table, and optionally to access individual rows. Lock modes include share, exclusive, update, or next_key_share. They determine the level of concurrency that is possible. (Displayed if the scan is over the base table.) For more information, see the section on locking in the Administration Guide.

Intra-partition scan type
Indicates if the index scan is performed in parallel by each subagent or if each subagent performs a private index scan.

(This item is displayed only for intra-partition parallelism or full parallelism (intra-partition and inter-partition)).

Intra-partition scan unit
The scan granularity unit. That is, when the value of Intra-partition scan type is set to Local parallel, the assigned range is scan granularity number of scan units. For example, if scan granularity = 2, scan units = Row, a local parallel index scan will assign 2 Rows of data to each subagent, and as each subagent completes its 2 Rows, it will be assigned 2 more Rows.

(This item is displayed only for intra-partition parallelism or full parallelism (intra-partition and inter-partition)).

(This item is available in Full details mode only.)

Intra-partition scan granularity
The number of scan units that a subagent is assigned when the value of Intra-partition scan type is set to Local parallel. (This item is displayed only for intra-partition parallelism or full parallelism (intra-partition and inter-partition)).

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