It sounds like you're looking for an indeterminate number of copies of the
file. There's an idiom for doing this. Put the file in storage, create an
infinite number of copies, then release each copy of the file under control
of the SYNCHRONIZE stage:
'(end \)',
...
'sy: synchronize |',
...
'\',
'<' fn ft fm |',
'instore |', /* Put file in storage */
'dup * |', /* Make as many copies as you need */
'sy: |', /* Control release of copies */
'outstore |', /* Copy of file into the pipeline */
...
Each time a record hits the SYNCHRONIZE stage's primary input stream, it
releases a record from the "dup *" to convert it into a copy of the file via
"outstore".
Marty
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Martin Zimelis
Principal
maz/Consultancy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian S. Worthington
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:55 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [CMS-PIPELINES] Creating parallel pipes
>
> I have a pipe that takes two input streams and passes them
> through a set of
> standard and custom stages to produce an annotated list of significant
> differences between them.
>
> One of the new stages called from the differencing stage
> takes a large static
> file as input and applies some changes to the output data.
> But as it is as
> the moment it rereads and reprocesses this file for each
> record, which clearly
> needs to be changed.
>
> What's the best way of setting up a parallel pipe which only
> needs to be
> initialised once and then sending and receiving records from
> that in the
> middle of a rexx stage? (Addpipe by chance? I can't find too much
> documentation on how to use it, and what I can seems to fit
> it on to the start
> or end of an existing pipe, not something that can be called
> in the middle.
>
> Any thoughts welcome.
>
>
> ian
> ...
>
> Ian S. Worthington, MBCS.
>
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>
>
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