Re: what say you about subfiles?

[Joe Giusto <JDG@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

you coud use the locicals by doing a setgt with *hival then readp the
number of records for a subfile page, then load the page.  a little more
i/o, but how many records can you put on one subfile page anyway?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boothm@ibm.net [SMTP:boothm@ibm.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 8:34 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: what say you about subfiles?
> 
[Joe Giusto]  <snip> 
> To make a boring story short, a review of the code showed that the
> last
> page had been loaded by taking the number of records in the file and
> subtracting the page size, and filling the subfile from that point.
> Very
> neat, very fast.  Also a new technique I'd not seen before.
> 
> 
> One of the downsides of the technique described is that it appears to
> work
> on a physical file only, disregarding all logicals, even if specified.
> 
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