RE: user space

["Tucker Gerry" <Gerry.Tucker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

User indexes are one of the sexiest things to hit the AS/400 ever.  I use them 
all the time in place of temporary physical work files because access time is 
so much quicker than PFs.

Regards,
 
Gerry Tucker
Senior Analyst Programmer
Technicolor Distribution Services
Wembley, U.K.

"All my life I wanted to be somebody.
Now I see that I should have been more specific."





>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mihael Knezevic [mailto:m.knezevic@porta.de]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:04 AM
>To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
>Subject: RE: user space
>
>
>sorry, but never heard of a user index. where can i look for reference?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Haas, Matt [mailto:Matt.Haas@thomsonlearning.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:31 PM
>To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
>Subject: RE: user space
>
>
>If you want fast, keyed access to the data, you should use a user index
>instead.
>
>Matt
>
><snip>
>one further question: as far as i understood the userspace 
>object, it is
>one piece of memory i could use and not broke down to rows and columns.
>so how would one do a fast, keyed lookup? <snip>
>
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