Speed up transfers via SNADS

["Andre Nortje" <andre.nortje@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date:          Wed, 18 Jun 1997 23:16:18 -0400
> To:            MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> From:          PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com (PaulMmn)
> Subject:       Re: So I tried to CPYTOPCD a *SAVF
> Reply-to:      MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

<snip>

> You -can- read a savf file from an RPG program...  once you've got
> the save file created, you can read it and copy it to another file
> of the same length (528 recl?), which you can CPYTOPCD.
> 
> At the other end, CPYFROMPCD (FRM?) then use a 2nd program to read
> the file and write to a Save File.
> 
> We use this trick to copy save files between AS/400s.  Yes, you can
> use SNADS functions, but they take so -long- (all that error
> correction and retrying).
> 

Will it be faster to send a save file, converted to a disk file, via 
SNADS, then to send the save file itself? Sounds like it. How much 
faster?

How can one speen up SNADS transfers, is what I am really after.



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