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At 11:01 PM 11/2/97 -0500, Tim Truax wrote:

>John Carr wrote:
>> So why are you against another logical? How many do you have over the
>> PF? 10? 50?
>
>I am concerned that too many logicals cause the system to expend alot of
>process to overhead issues in maintaining the *IMMED access. This file
>has about 25000 records and about 18 logicals currently.
>
>> What does the Key look like? (No select/omits ?)
>
>No select/omits it will be the City/State/zip/2 digit record ranking/
>about 40 positions long, the other one is just city/state, and was
>created several years ago and is used in many programs. Maybe I should
>just change the original?

It's a tradeoff—the overhead seems to me to be minimal in deciding what to do. But this is a natural for using a partial key.

If you change the old one, you will have to recompile anything that uses it.

HTH


Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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