>Anyone have experience if we turn off the XREF, MAP options. Will it >improved the overall complie job performance?
The answer has got to YES and the question is how much does it help. I have gone through COMPILES PROCs and looked to turn off anything not needed to actually output a compile. If this is just to find errors, I would suggest looking at SYNTAX to do a syntax check of the code. Then when they are ready to do the final Compile & Link, then they would use a different PROC. Syntax checking It will automatically turn off many, many options and runs real FAST. For COBOL, I wrote an ISPF panel for users to interactively compile (actually syntax check) by linking off to the COBOL compiler and I turned off everything which generated any kind of list, table, XREF, etc; this was beyond what the syntax check turned off. Then I put the output of the errors only into a TEMP file to browse. There is little overhead and people get to see their errors interactively. In general I did the same thing for Assembler and FORTRAN. Although ASM & FORTRAN don't have a syntax check, by turning off everything including creating the object module or deck, it runs very, very fast. I sent the code to the CBT tape as my Tool Chest a few years ago. It still works today. If you can not find it, let me know. Jim Marshall ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
