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I'm a'fraid that I have a copy myself ... :) By the way, did you ever notice that the sample program in that article didn't compile? I figured it out about three days after my public copy arrived. Richard Jackson mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net http://www.richardjacksonltd.com Voice: 1 (303) 808-8058 Fax: 1 (303) 663-4325 -|-----Original Message----- -|From: owner-mi400@midrange.com [mailto:owner-mi400@midrange.com]On -|Behalf Of Leif Svalgaard -|Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 6:48 AM -|To: MI400@midrange.com -|Subject: Re: buffering -| -| -|Thanks Richard, -|The info about the option for blocking was just what I needed. -|I hope the discussion has also been useful to other people listening -|in on the list. -|I also have the PRPQ manual, even an 8-inch diskette with the -|compiler. Does me little good these days. -|My first introduction to MI was Richards article in NEWS/38. -|I still have a frayed copy of it. -| -|----- Original Message ----- -|From: Richard Jackson <richardjackson@richardjackson.net> -|To: <MI400@midrange.com> -|Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 12:32 AM -|Subject: RE: buffering -| -| -|> No pain, no gain. Except for the System/38-to-RISC hacking, I think we -|have -|> the right stuff here. Create an RPG program to use as a -|stalking horse for -|> offsets and I think we have it. The block size settings are made as -|> structures tagged onto the end of the UFCB before QDMCOPEN is -|called. The -|> trick is that the data structures are documented in the data -|areas manual -|on -|> the override structure and not documented on the UFCB -|structure. It took -|me -|> half an hour to remember that. I'm getting old and stupid. -|> -|> In 1984, my first MI program was an MI compiler. It loaded data from a -|file -|> into a user space then called the PRM. My version used blocked -|record IO -|> and supported conditional nested include files, like C. It was -|fairly fast -|> .... :) I never used more than one level of include after that but the -|> education was fun. It t'were a bit harder to write MI in those -|days that -|it -|> is now - no documentation except the PRPQ manual and one had to sign -|license -|> and confidentiality agreements to get more information. My "assistance" -|> contact was a private arrangement - he retired from IBM just last April. -|> -|> Richard Jackson -|> mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net -|> http://www.richardjacksonltd.com -|> Voice: 1 (303) 808-8058 -|> Fax: 1 (303) 663-4325 -|> -|> -|-----Original Message----- -|> -|From: owner-mi400@midrange.com [mailto:owner-mi400@midrange.com]On -|> -|Behalf Of Don -|> -|Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 9:15 PM -|> -|To: MI400 List -|> -|Subject: Re: buffering -|> -| -|> -|Leif, -|> -| -|> -|Out of curiosity, why are you doing all this torture? :) -|> -| -|> -|Don -|> -| -|> -|On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Leif Svalgaard wrote: -|> -| -|> -|> As part of my ongoing investigation of sorting large files, -|> -|> I'm reading the files myself into storage to sort them there. -|> -|> I have a question about buffering. It doesn't make sense -|> -|> that it takes 15 minutes to read 10Mb (1,000,000 records -|> -|> of 10 bytes each), so I must not have the right buffering -|> -|> set up. What controls that? I was under the (mistaken ?) -|> -|> impression that suitable buffering was done by OS/400 -|> -|> so I don't have to worry about it. If that's the case, it -|> -|> is doing a poor job. More likely, I need to do something -|> -|> to get better buffering. What? -|> -|> -|> -|> Leif Svalgaard -| -| -|+--- -|| This is the MI Programmers Mailing List! -|| To submit a new message, send your mail to MI400@midrange.com. -|| To subscribe to this list send email to MI400-SUB@midrange.com. -|| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MI400-UNSUB@midrange.com. -|| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: -|dr2@cssas400.com -|+--- +--- | This is the MI Programmers Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MI400@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MI400-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MI400-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: dr2@cssas400.com +---
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