Re: Cobol I/O Modules and Blocking

[Sclind2@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 98-07-08 01:41:12 EDT, you write:

<< We have a system where the vendor has coded all file i/o into
 dynamically called
 modules.  These modules have all possible file access methods available
 (sequential,
 random, input, output, i/o).  The problem comes when these module are
 used to process
 a file sequentially and it would be a great benefit to block the file,
 but because the
 system sees the other processing methods defined in the module, it
 disables any blocking
 paramaters we try to use.  Short of rewriting these modules, (there are
 hundreds of them)
 does anyone know a way to enable blocking using these modules? >>

If you're willing to change the CL program that call the COBOL program (or add
one), I believe:

OVRDBF FILE(FILEX) SEQONLY(*YES XXXX)  

forces sequential access even when random I/O was found by the compiler.

Scott Lindstrom
Zenith Electronics
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