Re: buffering

I would rather not use an OVRDBF to set the block size. Isn't there
a way of setting that in the UFCB at open-time, maybe one of the
options in the variable part?

Your idea of copying the whole lot in one go looks good; will try
that, once I can get it to read 128k in one go.

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Jackson <richardjackson@richardjackson.net>
To: <MI400@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 6:01 PM
Subject: RE: buffering


> I think that you could get it fast more quickly in C but there aren't any
> facilities in C that you can't use in MI.  I always found that writing IO
in
> MI to be a pain.  However, I have a suggestion for you:
>
> When you execute the IO that pulls in the 128k block from the file, take
the
> address of the beginning of the block from the IO feedback area and just
> copy the whole thing directly into the user space - in other words, don't
> bother to read anything into a buffer, just copy it directly from the VMC
> buffer.  Is there something that will copy more than 32k at a time or are
> you stuck with CPYBLA?  If not, you have to make four operations.
>
> Richard Jackson
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> -|-----Original Message-----
> -|From: owner-mi400@midrange.com [mailto:owner-mi400@midrange.com]On
> -|Behalf Of Leif Svalgaard
> -|Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 2:52 PM
> -|To: MI400@midrange.com
> -|Subject: Re: buffering
> -|
> -|
> -|Thanks, Richard.
> -|As always you come through with good stuff.
> -|
> -|Language:  why, MI, of course.  :-)
> -|
> -|>
> -|> Are you using Dick's new sort APIs?
> -|
> -|No, a search for "Dick's new sort API" on IBM's sites
> -|did not turn up anything.
> -|
> -|
> -|
> -|
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