We went through a buffering exercise for our IMS systems once and saw internal response time drop from .53 to .29 with no other changes, just buffering.
Mark Hammond -----Original Message----- VSAM defines prepared by Cobol programmers are rarely efficient, at least in my experience. IMS buffers could be looked at as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

