RE: RE: shared storage across many jobs

Elvis,

Can you have a single user space which contains pointers to other user
spaces? When you need to add job information, you go to the 'primary'
user space and run through each of the pointers in there, accessing the
related user space (which you treat simply as memory, since you're just
using a pointer) and checking for a record in each other user space. In
the 'prmary' user space, you'd simply have an array like this:

D MainDS           DS
D  Array                           Dim(10)
D   UsrSpcPtr                  *
D   NbrOfJobs                10I 0

and in the 'secondary' user space you'd have your array of job
structures. You'd still only need to use the QUSPTRUS API once to get
the pointer to the main user space and then have a loop from there. Of
course you'd need to have processing to create more secondary user
spaces as needed, but that's not a problem...

Another option might be to use a user index - it'll certainly be faster
than file I/O, but maybe slower than using one or more user spaces...

HTH,

Rory