>The application is opening a large number of input files with the C/C++
>fopen convention as fopen("//DD:INPUT(member)","r") .Is this read only data? if so, would it be an option to copy the PDS members into a TFS file system (one of your own), say after an IPL and leave them there for your application? TFS access is memory only and should be fast. >I just think about convert the original input PDS(E) file into a memory >files according this syntax. You mean naming the files //DD:INPUT(member)? The //DD: is triggering MVS OPEN in C/C++ instead of file system open. I suspect this will not work. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
