Re: Matching Record (Was Need Help)

John Carr wrote:
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> <SNIP SNIP>
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> Without looking, What was Position 45 in the header Spec (HSpec) used for
> in RPGII? 
Peering through the cob webs I'm comming up with nohalt for unprintable
characters, but there 
as a little voice saying no, no, it's to allow for inquiry
interrupt.....but then again.....

 ok ok,  How about; How was CORE STORAGE INDEX defined in RPG
> and what was it's use?

The key value at the beginning of each track of the index portion of a
file.  The system could narrow down it's search to the nearest track. 
This index was retained in CORE STORAGE when you used to get your
processor from a CORE house.  It was originally used by the program
specifying the index (S/34 F spec) then graduated to a system level
resource automatically calculated and sharable by all programs (S/36
ocl).

I think the math went something like (key length + 3) * #of tracks =
storage index size

It's a curse to remember even only half the details of stuff like this. 
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, in a cold sweat,
screaming "when will it stop!" =:-o
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