Re: Commitment Control

["Rob Dixon" <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John 

I am amazed that anyone should try and talk you out of this.  If he wins
the day, just pull the plug during the update and let him sort it.   

If you are already journalling, with both open and close images, then the
extra overhead is not that large.  It does mean more records written to the
journal receiver and the %age increase will depend on the number of records
written to the journal receiver per transaction.  If you are going to treat
all 500 records as a batch then the additional number is very small unless
you commit for each record.  Does each record result in multiple updates? 
If so you could set the commit size to the number of updates per record,
but I usually set this to 30 records. 

I have been journalling with commitment control for all files since /38
days and I have NEVER had to restore a file, except once for a disk failure
(/38) and when moving to a new machine.  We get excellent response times. 
If you want to minimise unplanned down time, I recommend commitment
control.

Rob Dixon

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> From: John Hall <jhall@hillmgt.com>
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Commitment Control
> Date: 13 July 1998 13:47
> 
> We are in the midst of doing some conversions to old software.  One of
> the programmer/consultants we brought in is arguing against setting up
> commitment control.  I feel that it is a feature we should be using. 
> 
> He feels that there may be too much overhead on the system.  We are
> going to enable journaling on all these files anyway. 
> 
> We are on a Model 170 2164.  We just moved from an F10 so we can afford
> some overhead in processing time.
> 
> What is the general feeling on this ?  If we are posting a batch of 500
> records should we commit on every record, every 10th record or after the
> entire batch ?
> 
> I think it may be a case of lack of knowlege on his part but I would
> like some other opinions.
> 
> 
> John L. Hall
> Home Sales Co.
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