Re: Recompiling an RPG pgm

[Seth.D.Shields@xxxxxxxx]

Ken Sims wrote:
>You were doing fine until you hit the part quoted above.  FRCRATIO(1)
>forces the data not only to be written to the file but also the file pages
>in memory to be written to the disk.  This is a much bigger performance hit
>than what is needed to make the records visible in the file.

>To turn off record blocking, using OVRDBF with SEQONLY(*NO), or in RPG IV
>you can also do it in the program with BLOCK(*NO) in the keywords part of
>the F-spec.

>This will cause the records to be written to the file immedidately, which
>is a little performance hit, but not force the pages to be immediately
>written to disk, so it is not nearly as much of a performance hit as
>FRCRATIO(1).

Thank you Ken.  I'm working on a project right now where this will make a big 
difference.

Seth Shields
Julius Blum, Inc.
Stanley, NC