Ed, On the other hand, my favorite VSAM story is cutting a job from 60 hours to 2.5 hours by "cutting" the buffers.
Bigger is not always better... Ron > > Agreed. in the same area I have seen applications half in execution > time just by increasing (# of) buffers . The same is with CPU time > while I have not seen drastic differences I have seen it cut buy 1/3 > with minimal program rewrite. Doubling the channel speed does you no > good unless that is the bottle neck just like doubling the cpu speed > does not (necessarily) get your job done in half the time. > > Ed > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
