> Is there any reason to do a WAIT before the CHECK? 

EOV processing.

> There's little reason to use BSAM. 

NOTE, POINT.

> The consensus in this thread has been,
> QSAM is at least nearly as good as BSAM;
> perhaps better

There's a good deal of overlap between the BSAM and QSAM code.


--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of 
Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2021 3:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Overlapped I/O completion

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:43:38 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:

>On 3/19/2021 12:35 PM, Joseph Reichman wrote:
>> So this is what I will do
>>
>> I’ll do 3 reads in the first since i need to get myself going I’ll issue the
>> WAIT using the ECB from the DECB
>> Than when I finish processing that buffer and need to go to the second I/O 
>> I’ll issue a WAIT for that
>> etc
>
>Don't forget to issue CHECK after WAIT.
>
Is there any reason to do a WAIT before the CHECK?  I never did.

There's little reason to use BSAM.  The consensus in this thread
has been, QSAM is at least nearly as good as BSAM; perhaps
better because it knows the best way to deal with current
devices, when to WAIT, etc.  And has far less coding effort.

GET LOCATE might save a few instructions/record vis-a-vis
GET MOVE.

-- gil

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