On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:35:33 -0600, Peter Vander Woude wrote: > >Our programmers used to use a cobol to read in a file, for ebcdic to ascii >translation, and then this subprogram would be called for each record to >convert from ebcdic to ascii. The job steps calling that routine spent over >90% of their cpu time in that subprogram. > >I re-wrote into hlasm, and eliminated at least 80-90% of the cpu time, just >due to the efficiencies that the assembler code management of the data in a >table, have vs cobol. > And that conversion is built in to the z/OS UNIX kernel if the proper incantations are performed.
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