Re: USER Queues VS DATA Queues

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Hello Bruce,

You wrote:
>>Is there any significant advantage to using User Queues?
>No.
>A user queue just requires you to write all the queue and dequeue operations
>using MI or MI from C. The only advantage is that user queues are not
>available through the normal QSNDDTAQ and QRCVDTAQ APIs. So unless you are
>developing software that is to be marketed, and you have a requirement to
>protect queues from outside (other programmers) use, then data queues are
>fine. They are both system objects with almost identical characteristics.

If I recall correctly, the algorithm used to sort a keyed user queue is more 
efficient than that used for data queues thus a performance improvement can 
be obtained by using them.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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