On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:02:03 -0800, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
>Yes there is. Just last month the *OLD* table problem popped up. User needs >LARGE in storage table (10G). Her only option was to write the file to a VSAM data >set and do inquiries on it with I/O. The run time (even with CI's in memory) was >about 4 hours. She did a rough quicky assembler and it was less that 10 minutes >(elapsed on both numbers). Now, you tell me it isn't needed. This issue has rose >time and time again. The answer is always to write an assembler program to do it. >The *OLD* write it to VSAM option is really inexcusable, IMO. Assembler is dead >(or at least almost extinct). Ed, Finally! Somebody has actually posted a real case where AMODE(64) would have solved a problem in a good way. I was also questioning the real need for this, at least at present. I assume that this table was READ-ONLY and accessed with a binary search. I have done this for data in AMODE(31) in assembler (well, I didn't design it, I just inherited from something written by another programmer long ago, in a galaxy far, far way - but who programs in a Ford anyway?). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
