On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:06:01 -0600, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
>> too!".
>>>
>> No caching ==> poor performance.  Frequent refresh ==> poor performance.
>
>This is why I would suggest perhaps something similar to LINKLIST in that it 
>is searched by default, but also like JOBLIB in that there is no caching.
>
No caching ==> poor performance.

>> Would the JCL INCLUDE facility help you here?
>Yes and no.
>
>Yes, I could have a member that has a JOBLIB concatention with all of the 
>production libraries I would need for production applications jobs.
>
>But no, this would not help for testing, because any JOBLIB I specified in my 
>test JCL in order to add a test library (ahead of production libraries) would 
>have to be "built from scratch" in order to place it at the beginning.
>
For testing, INCLUDE a different JOBLIB member.  This in turn (I believe)
could be selected by a JCL symbolic variable which could also be used as
a qualifier in data set names to differentiate your test data from
production data.

-- gil

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