RE: Combine Logical

["Nicolay, Paul" <paul_nicolay@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jonathan,

It depends... do you need the data of the other files for each record in the
master file, of does it depend on certain criteria ?  Sometimes manually
CHAINing the record is much faster than a JOIN, sometimes it isn't.

Kind regards,
Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Oblea [mailto:JOBLE@amkor.com]
Sent: 19 April, 2002 10:56
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Combine Logical



Hi,

We have an RPG program that reads a combine logical file which contains 3
combined
master files (approx. 4 million records per file). This program takes
several hours to run.

Is there a better alternative logic that will speed up the performance of
an RPG program
with or without using a combine logical file ?

Thank you in Advance,
Jonathan

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