Re: Beginner needs help w/ decim

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>use internally defined output and input specs,
>with an edit code,  and write it out to a disk file
>and read the record back in.  Used to use this
>technique all the time on the S/36 with direct files.
>Input is character, output is numeric.

Man, that brings back memories!  What was that, a one-record file where the
I/O never touched the disk?  And when we migrated those apps to the AS/400,
performance went down the toilet!

The other performance killer was the AS/400's inability to block Update files,
something that the S/36 did very well.  I had never gotten a satisfactory
answer to why the AS/400 could not handle that.  Yes, I had gotten answers,
but none were satisfactory.  But I'll save that for another thread.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
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