ASM is Adabas Parallel Services, I'm not sure why they didn't call it APS, but possibly they already had one by that name.
ASM provides Compression, decompression, format buffer translation, sorting, retrieving, searching and updating operations all occur in parallel. So it gives better distribution of your workload across the available processors. You might already be running it and just don't know it, or just don't have the extra address space running that Natural will need. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
