Re: file merge dilemma

McCallion, Martin wrote:
> 
> Booth said:
> 
> > But then, maybe building logicals freely may be the new way?
> > Is there no
> > longer the stigma there once was against building a logical for one
> > single-purpose program?
> 
> There's no stigma as far as I know.  Use the tools you need for the job.
> Why was there a stigma?

Back in earlier days of S/38, programmers went nuts using and building
logicals.. Some folks had 100's of logical of one file and system
performance went in the dumpster.... It came out in the early days of
the 400 that it wasn't a "great" idea to have a ton of logicals against
one file..(People were using logicals instead of sorts which just sort
of piled up and never got removed) Depending on the designers, this
trend
may or may not continue to this day... How many logicals have you
created
for this "just one time report" instead of using OPNQRYF ???????

I have seen this situation repeated in any number of accounts.....
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