At the shop I worked be barred ipoupdte because it broke the endeavor locks in production pds’s
Sent from my iPhone I promise you I can’t type or Spell on any smartphone > On Oct 7, 2020, at 19:51, Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Oct 2020, at 01:10, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> No, I'm saying that I know what the CHANGE command does. Did the OP say >> that the relevant lines are contiguous? > > No, he said nothing at all except that > > "On a different note. I just compared EDIT macro performance > versus IPOUPDTE. IPOUPDTE was about 600 times faster." > > Of course I'm not surprised that a specific utility is faster, but how much > faster depends on lots of things that weren't stated - which I thought > made the comparison more or less worthless. > > It reminds me of the discovery I made back in the 1980s, on a VM/CMS > system, that one could copy a file more quickly using Xedit to load the > file then write it elsewhere (with a macro governing that), than by using > the CMS file copy command. > > As far as I remember, IBM admitted that Xedit I/O had been optimised > to make it as fast as possible, to help sell VM, CMS and Xedit as a > development tool. > > -- > Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
