If you have DFSORT or similar, you could use TRAN=ATOE. Sort utilities usally are very good at I/O and CPU.
Regards. Massimo 2016-12-19 16:47 GMT+01:00 Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]>: > 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. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
