Re: duplicate record Id's in multi user environment

[Marco Facchinetti <facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>]

no downsides
--- John Hall <jhall@hillmgt.com> wrote:
> Just curious here ...
> 
> Instead of a data area why not use a single record
> "master" file.  It
> would seem to me that record locking is at least as
> efficient as data
> area locking and let the system take care of updating
> disk as needed. 
> Even if you journaled the file the potential to busy out
> a disk are
> would be less.  
> 
> 400 updates to this file should be no harder than for the
> system to add
> 400 invoices to the invoice file.
> 
> What are the downsides ?
> 
> John Hall


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf!  It's FREE.
http://im.yahoo.com/
+---
| This is the RPG/400 Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---