Message: "Building Dynamic Index"

A user receives when running a process, the message:

Building Dynamic Index


You are building a dynamic index for
a possibly large number of records.


This process may take a long time.
Please CANCEL to stop building index.
Press RETURN to continue.

What exactly makes this message occur? How big does a file have to be before this occurs?

This message is displayed while APPX is building a requested dynamic index after indexing 1000 records. The administrator can adjust the record count by setting the environment variable APPX_DYNAKEY_PROMPT. For example:

APPX_DYNAKEY_PROMPT=5000

Dynamic indexing (not just the prompt, but all of the capability) can be disabled altogether by setting the variable:

APPX_DISABLE_DYNAKEYS=yes