File Reads

Hi All,

This is an extension to my earlier question. We are planning to use the
blocking factor for the datafile. Before calling our main RPG (or the main
pgm), we will do a OVRDBF of the datafile with SEQONLY(*YES) NBRRCDS(xxx). But
we want to have a parameter in the NBRRDS value instead of hard coded value.
This way we can control the blocking factor based on file size. We came up with
a formula as :

for CISC :   (32 * 1024) / RecordLength
for RISC :  (64 * 1024) / RecordLength

round it off to the nearest lower value. We tried this with a file of 1.2
milliion records and the record length is 118. The blocking factor we got is
272. It took approx 15 mins to process 40000 records. Earleir it took more than
an hour to process 60000 records. This means we are gaining some improvement.
But still we are a little bit doubtful abt the formula. Is there anyway, we can
caluclate the blocking factor differently and more efficiently? We can hard
code the blocking factor as 32367 records (max limit), but this might cause
some paging problems. So we wanted to calculate the blocking factor for each
file at run-time. Any ideas or thoughts??

Thanx in advance for any help. Good day.

Rgds
Venu
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