RE: Member Names

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not against the list APIs per se.  I'm not even against learning
something new that might involve thinking about it.  I was just wondering
about the benefit for "casual" use.  I can see that things like that would
be great for systems programming.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 1:30 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Member Names
> 
> 
> 
> 1)  You are not creating, or clearing, a physical file member 
> to store the
> list.  There is less overhead to a user space.
> 2)  You don't have to break out of RPG, or call QCMDEXC (or 
> it's brethren)
> to execute a DSPFD
> 3)  All input from the userspace can be sped up by using 
> pointers (don't
> use QUSRTVUS) versus record i/o
> 
> I haven't time clocked it.  But sooner or later you really 
> should use the
> list API's.  And this is such a simple one.  For samples on 
> how to use the
> list API's check out:
> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG245402.html
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v4r5/ic2924/info
> /apis/api.htm
> 
> 
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