I concur with both of you ... IIRC, it's open/close that has the most overhead.
Kind Regards Jim Thomas 617-233-4130 (mobile) 636-294-1014 (res) [email protected] (Email) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 1:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Startio -----------------------------------<snip>--------------------------------- >>QSAM is great if you don't want to mess with anything, but it has >>the highest overhead. >> >> > >Having looked at the channel programs for BSAM and QSAM, I doubt that. >If anything, the average use of BSAM is probably more expensive than >the average use of QSAM. YMMV. > > ------------------------------<unsnip>------------------------------------- Grey area here. I would say that depends a great deal on the experience and skill levels of the programmer. Not to mention the final intended purpose. I've used QSAM to access individual members of a PDS, in name sequence, but it's not a practice I'd recommend to the novice. Rick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1388 / Virus Database: 1516/3751 - Release Date: 07/08/11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
