RE: Keyed PF

It is my bellief that in early years data was often on tab cards and would
be sorted.  There really was no such thing as "original arrival sequence"
after the first sort.   This paradigm continued on into magentic media.  

Still today there is no guarantee that a reorganize command will leave a
file in a particular order beyond that defined within the reorganize process
itself.  

What if your process depended upon arrival sequence and some other process
GSORTed the file alphabetically?  You'd think the Great God of Data had
created a miracle on your disk.  :)

Additionally, we have no promises as to future technologies.  If web stuff
continues its growth, not even arrival sequence will have meaning as records
come in from all over the world.
 
 
 
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Friday, February 21, 2003 20:58:14
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Keyed PF
 
midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 10. RE: Keyed PF (Henrik Krebs)
>
> Also: Why should anybody in Rochester code the internals in a randomizing
way?

Probably true that it wouldn't be deliberately coded in a randomizing way.
But the internal code _might_ be changed at any time in order to change
performance or add new function, and the future changes are unpredictable
and can't be guaranteed to result in the same order as today, right?

Tom Liotta

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