Allen E. Elwood wrote on 01/04/2006 01:29:47 PM: > I've always found it helpful to open the file/record in 'regular' mode first > to find out if the directory entry worked or possibly to write a null record > if it didn't.
So, if the O/S-level file is multi-megabytes, you're reading the whole thing into memory? That could cause problems with shared memory and will certainly create a burden on the system. It also kind of defeats the purpose of using a sequential file, since you're reading the whole thing in, then opening it again and reading through the entire file a second time with READSEQ. Since you've incurred the memory and performance hit to pull the whole thing into a variable, you might as well waltz through that variable to extract the lines an attribute at a time with REMOVE or READNEXT. If you're following this practice only on small files, and only infrequently, it's probably OK, but how can you guarantee that will always be the case? Tim Snyder Consulting I/T Specialist , U2 Professional Services North American Lab Services DB2 Information Management, IBM Software Group 717-545-6403 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
