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I have not in the past been able to do what I thought was a good job with estimating. I suspect that certain tasks will go faster if I do X, but I not know if it will be enough to be noticeable.

I rewrote how a batch string of programs access their files, and the approx 2 hour job ran in about 4 minutes less time.

I got permission to get rid of records over 2 years old in one of the files used by the batch program. It now ran in 1 hour instead of 2 hours.

It was a total surprise to me that the speed was that much greater.

I am also looking at other access paths to improve a few tasks performance speed.. I know that adding access paths to the total collection has an overall degradation.

We have a late nite window of low demand on our system, with a growing pile of tasks scheduled to run then, so that people have up to date information first thing next morning.

When you lobbied for archiving software did you ever argue with $?
The purchase of software xyz for $A
Will make process B run C minutes shorter.
An alternative to making process B run C minutes shorter is buying
additional hardware from IBM at a cost of $D?

Most people can't honestly come up with a vaue for C.  They just wing it.
We had a gent here who used to piss away vast quantities of time clearing
up item master records to make things run faster and to save disk space.
Never could say how much faster, nor how much space he would save.

By the way, the size of the item master in question is 2.7MB or .000071%
of disk space.  Rather reminds me of Barbara Morris example of some
people's attempts to tune RPG coding can be compared to the fact that
stepping on a step ladder does put you closer to the moon.

Rob Berendt
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Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Another popular solution, for some packages, is to go with some archiving
product.

We are on BPCS with many files a million plus records.  The average user
only needs to see the last few days worth of transactions, at most a
month,
but we have a few applications that do need to access stuff that is a year

old.  With archiving, which we do not have, but I have lobbied
occasionally
to get, the records that are rarely needed are sitting in another library
so they not contaminate access efficiency for the 99% normal access needs.

Archiving also provides tools that simplify the task of creating test data

bases.

>Does anyone use this product and can comment on it?
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