Re: PF with lotsa LFs

As a side note about performance with the replacement of Selects like the
conversation below talks about is....

suppose many people are using these things ,  LF1, LF2, LF3, ..... all day
long,  the  logicals are going in and out of memory all day.

with LFx   that index would more likely to stay in memory all day long with
many people using it and you would encounter
many fewer DB page faults.


Remember with updates happening to the PF,  each one of those LF's have
have an excusive Seize to do the update.
Rule one.   Minimize the Locks and Seizes.

Just a thought.

John

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>> LF1    key   FLDA    Select only   field CODE = 'C'
>> LF2   key   FLDA    Select only   fleld  CODE = 'O'
>> LF3  key   FLDA    select  only  field  CODE = 'D'
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> LFx  key   CODE, FLDA    (in RPG reading Equal on keylist)


>...But, what if the file (LF) had to be in FLDA sequence?
>Capt.j



Capt j,

<chuckle>   Think about it.  If you use LF1 the only records you are going
to get is those with CODE = 'C' and those would be in FLDA order.

Now with LFx   keys   CODE, FLDA...

Now I could have a keylist like

     EVAL   CODE  = 'C'
CODE      Setll     LFx
CODE Reade     LFx

I will get the SAME results.  Only CODE 'C's  in FLDA order !!
But then using THE SAME LFx  I could

     EVAL   CODE  = 'O'
CODE Setll     LFx
CODE Reade     LFx


ALL  Using the Same LFx

John