The key to your code being useful *and* performant is the knowledge to allocate new "spare" slots in chunks, which are neither too small, more shifting of data, nor too large (actually, much less of a problem).
If you have a native COBOL way to do that, fine. I have a table with 400,000 entries. I'd like the program to survive if 400,003 entries happen to turn up, I'd prefer not to shift 400,000 entries even three times, but it's not too bad. But what I don't want is it to allow for 600,000 entries and keep coming, because I know that is wrong. Now, if I want to set the whole thing up in a "parameter file", so that I can generalise the use... how would I do that in native COBOL? Ever? So, in answer to your question, in this specific instance, No. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
