RE: what say you about subfiles?

"Do of choice"  Well put James.  This should be put in the Midrange politically 
correct dictionary! :0}

Eric Kempter
Director of MIS
Commair Mechanical Services

-----Original Message-----
From:   James W. Kilgore [SMTP:qappdsn@ibm.net]
Sent:   Tuesday, May 26, 1998 11:13 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: what say you about subfiles?


But anyway, IMO for a file that size, where potentially all entries would be
displayed, a page at a time technique would be called for.  A "position to" 
field
would perform a DO of choice load.  Smaller files of let's say <5000 records or
whatever your particular configuration/workload would permit we would load the
whole subfile showing a flashing "working...." message during the load.

BTW, I have always thought that if you had subfile size greater than page size
and could get the machine to use up a whole display line for the word "more..."
or "bottom", it could also show "top" or page x of y. Although this is easy
enough to program yourself so long as you are willing to stick with page at a
time.

My two cents in the hat..

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