On Tue, 21 May 2013 09:55:51 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:

>Slightly drifting topic:
>
>We use fseek / ftell / fread to do the file I/O. The files are normal 
>sequential
>OS files.
> 
Sounds like the worst of both worlds.  Have you tried it with normal
z/OS UNIX files?  The kernel may do the caching for you.

I've found that for large numbers of small files z/OS UNIX files
vastly outperform legacy data sets.  The allocate/open/close/free
overhead is brutal.

-- gil

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