Re: subfile loading question!

[Malcolm Westley <mwestley@xxxxxx>]

The clock chimed 12:41 PM -0400 8/15/99 when Wynn Osborne scribbled:
>I agree with Bob. If you are reading only 5 records per re-display, the
>issue lies somewhere else.
>
>Also the number of records in the file is irrelevant---but you may check
>the file being used and the logic occurring when each record is read.
>
>I've really only seen issues like this when using a join logical file
>and/or doing a lot of additional logic (such as calling a routine to
>calculate, e.g., a YTD value by reading hundreds of records from another
>file)...
>
>Wynn
>"M-I-L-O...God D#$%^&"--Tex Ritter

Jigna does not specify what causes his (my apologies if Jigna is a woman's
name) performance problem, but he does give us a clue. Since he has no code
to handle a pageup request, the user must start at the beginning of some
group of records (perhaps some customer's history) then page through all of
the records until reaching the one the user was looking for in the first
place. In this case, the number of records in the file is very relevant. A
customer with 10,000 records will take a long time to page through at five
records per page.

If this is the problem, one solution would be to allow the user to start
somewhere in the middle of some group of records (perhaps some customer's
history after a given date), but now the lack of a pageup becomes more of
an issue. It can be very confusing and frustrating to a user when an
artificial boundary is created. I know it's a pain, but you really should
not ignore the pageup request.

Good luck,
Malcolm


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